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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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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Oppression makes a poor country.

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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 Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

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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.

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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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.

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