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> [Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/are-we-not-to-pity-and-supply-the-poor-though-they-have-no-relation/)

[Thomas Sprat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sprat/)

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## More by Thomas Sprat

> [Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/are-we-not-to-pity-and-supply-the-poor-though-they-have-no-relation/)

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> [A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/a-great-proportion-of-the-wretchedness-which-has-embittered-married/)

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> [Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/greediness-of-getting-more-deprives-the-enjoyment-of-what-it-had-got/)

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> [In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/in-all-works-of-liberality-something-more-is-to-be-considered-besides/)

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> [Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/passion-is-the-great-mover-and-spring-of-the-soul-when-men-s-passions/)

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> [Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/do-not-too-many-believe-no-zeal-to-be-spiritual-but-what-is/)

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> [It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/it-is-always-esteemed-the-greatest-mischief-a-man-can-do-to-those/)

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> [What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/what-you-dislike-in-another-take-care-to-correct-in-yourself/)

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> [Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/invention-is-an-heroic-thing-and-plac-d-above-the-reach-of-a-low-and/)

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> [...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/they-have-never-affirm-d-any-thing-concerning-the-cause-till-the/)

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> [ \[In the Royal Society, there\] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/in-the-royal-society-there-has-been-a-constant-resolution-to-reject/)

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> [All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/all-false-practices-and-affections-of-knowledge-are-more-odious-to/)

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> [Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sprat/forever-all-goodness-will-be-most-charming-forever-all-wickedness/)

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