Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
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Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.