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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

John Milton

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
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Appointment Body Man Mindset Work
Believe and be confirmed.
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Believe Confirm One Liner
Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Hard One Liner Truth Walk
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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End God Himself Imitation Knowledge Learning Love
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
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Share Strength Wisdom
You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind.
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Deep Heaven Hell Mindset Thinking Yourself
The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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Apology Best Silence
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other’s burden.
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Blame Burden Enough Light Love Office
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Consequence Law Limitation Power Protection
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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Change Experience Forever Gratitude Life Moments Transcendence World
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
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Bird Breathe Charm Early Rise Sweet
Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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Benefit Hell One Liner Torture
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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Bad Handle Hands Liberty Man Virtue
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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Design Flight God Man Thinking
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
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Better Heaven Hell Rule Service
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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Design Devil Fight God Hell Man
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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Revenge Sweet
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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Choice Evil Goodness Knowledge Man State Wisdom
He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.
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Bright Center Day Enjoyment Light
My latest found, Heaven’s last, best gift, my ever new delight!
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Best Delight Gift Heaven
And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
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Herself Live Nature Son
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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Hard Hell Leadership Light Way
He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.
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Breast Bright Day Enjoyment Himself Light
There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
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Carry Hands Heart Man Philosophy Rich Strong True
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Place Time Various Virtue
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Ground Profit Respect Right Worth
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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Blind Misery

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