"Industry pays debts, while despair increases them."
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"In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?"
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"Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?"
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"In the dark, all cats are grey."
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"He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich."
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"Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself."
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"Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger."
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"I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven."
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"A full Belly brings forth every Evil."
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"A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours."
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"Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good."
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"Nothing preaches better than the act."
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"History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern."
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"He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others"
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"Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation."
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"I am lord of myself, accountable to none."
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"Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same."
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"Be ashamed to catch yourself idle."
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"We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way."
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"An old young man, will be a young old man."
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