Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
JOHN MILTONMeanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
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Believe and be confirmed.
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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
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