Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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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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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

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Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

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