"Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths."
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"Do not let fancy outrun your means."
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"Fiction or fable allures to instruction."
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"All cats are gray in the dark."
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"A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion."
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"No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth."
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"Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own."
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"When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]"
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"If your head is made of wax, don't walk in the sun"
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"Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought."
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"He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard."
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"Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others."
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"It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England."
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"If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold."
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"When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet."
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"I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity."
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"Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance."
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"A light purse is a heavy curse."
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"All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?"
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"Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions."
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