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1. Repentance is not dated.
2. The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.
3. If virtue accompanies beauty it is the hearts paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.
4. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart; if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction; make use of both, so shalt thou distill honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.
5. "There is no such merchant as the charitable man; he gives trifles which he could not keep, to receive treasure which he cannot lose."
6. "If thou hast the place of a magistrate, deserve it by thy justice and dignify it by thy mercy. Be not too severe, lest thou be hated; nor too remiss, lest thou be slighted: so execute justice that thou mayest be loved; so execute mercy that thou mayest be feared."
7. "Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it."
8. "If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but itself."
9. "Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason."
10. "The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric."
