"Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor."
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"Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming."
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"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
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"There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace."
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"He that rises late must trot all day."
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"Innocence is its own defense."
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"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."
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"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said."
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"One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else."
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"Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly."
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"I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."
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"I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'"
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"Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge."
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"Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."
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"Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."
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"Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others."
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"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."
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"By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration."
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"Revealed religion has no weight with me."
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