Never despise what you don't understand.

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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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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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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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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

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