Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.William Penn
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
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