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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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