I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

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

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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

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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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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

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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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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

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