It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
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Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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