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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetu...  
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious i...  
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of oth...  
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.  
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.  
God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary an...  
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, ...  
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his n...  
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and b...  
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscie...  
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.  
Love is friendship set on fire.  
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.  
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the gr...  
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.  
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.  
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.  
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands ...