After a storm comes a calm.
Better late than never.
Blushing is the colour of virtue.
Both young and old have their advantages and neither of them must despise nor envy the other. The young are strong and fit for action, able to break through difficulties. The old are grave, and fit for counsel, and, though they have not the strength that young men have, yet they have more wisdom and experience.
Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.
Honor is like the shadow, which flees from those that pursue it, and grasp at it, but follows those that flee from it.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
None is so deaf as those that will not hear.
None so blind as those that will not see.
Saying and doing are two things.
The better day, the worse deed.
the way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve the purity of it.
The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, or out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.
They that die by famine die by inches.
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