If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

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If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

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God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

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