Roger Chamberlain Quotes

• Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Men, Rich Or Poor, Desire

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• It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

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  Air, Praise, Live By

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• A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

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  Men, Foolish Man, House

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• Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

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  Storm, Friendly, Violent

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• When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

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  Nature, Bears, Reason

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• He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

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  Vices, Reform, Restoration

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• There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

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  Want, Riches, Poverty

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• Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Too Much, Way, Next

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