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Moderate counsels
are wisest and best. Gentleness will do what violence will not do.
Most people like to be accosted mildly.
Good words cost only a little self-denial, yet they purchase great
things. No more needs to be done to ruin men, than to leave them
to their own pride and passion. Thus, whatever are the devices of
men, God is doing his own work by all, and fulfilling the word
which he has spoken. No man can bequeath his prosperity to his
heirs any more than his wisdom; though our children will generally
be affected by our conduct, whether good or bad.
Let us then seek those good things which will be our own for ever;
and crave the blessing of God upon our posterity, in preference to
wealth or worldly exaltation. |
