Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
From Jeremy Taylor
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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