We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in...

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in...

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

A great step towards independence is good humored stomach

A great step towards independence is good humored stomach

For greed, all nature is too little.

For greed, all nature is too little.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless...

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless...

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the...

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the...

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts...

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts...

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money.

Fidelity that is bought with money may be overcome with money.

He who profits by a crime commits it

He who profits by a crime commits it

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes...

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes...

Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard...

Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard...

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Keep trusting God...He is always in control even when your circumstances may seem out of...

Keep trusting God...He is always in control even when your circumstances may seem out of...