Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
From Isaac Barrow
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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