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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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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Never despise what you don't understand.

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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