“Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments.”
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“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.”
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
“Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures.”
“It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.”
“Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.”
“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
“Let the People think they Govern and they will be Governed.”
“It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.”
“A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.”
“If I am even with my Enemy, the Debt is paid; but if I forgive it, I oblige him for ever.”
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies.”
“The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.”
“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”