Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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