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If A Sound Body And A Sound Mind, Which Is As Much As To Say Health And Virtue, Are To Be Preferred Before All Other Considerations, Ought Not Men, In Choosing A Business Either For Themselves Or Children, To Refuse Such As Are Unwholesome For The Body, And Such As Make A Man Too Dependent, Too Much Obliged To Please Others, And Too Much Subjected To Their Humors In Order To Be Recommended And Get A Livelihood?

Great Good Nature Without Prudence Is A Great Misfortune.

One Mend-fault Is Worth Two Find-faults, But One Find-fault Is Better Than Two Make-faults.

My List Of Virtues Contain'd At First But Twelve: But A Quaker Friend Having Kindly Inform'd Me That I Was Generally Thought Proud; That My Pride Show'd Itself Frequently In Conversation; That I Was Not Content With Being In The Right When Discussing Any Point, But Was Overbearing & Rather Insolent; Of Which He Convinc'd Me By Mentioning Several Instances; - I Determined Endeavouring To Cure Myself ..., And I Added Humility To My List, Giving An Extensive Meaning To The Word.

Whoever Feels Pain In Hearing A Good Character Of His Neighbor, Will Feel A Pleasure In The Reverse. And Those Who Despair To Rise In Distinction By Their Virtues, Are Happy If Others Can Be Depressed To A Level Of Themselves.