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They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
No Cross, No Crown (1682)
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims (1682)
Lest, selling that noble inheritance for a poor mess of perishing pottage, you never enter into His eternal rest.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims (1682)
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature... no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
Frame of Government (1682)
Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
A private Life is to be preferr'd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
No Cross, No Crown (1682)
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
Advice to his children (1699)