The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.
