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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Oppression makes a poor country.
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.