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> [An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/an-anecdote-is-related-of-sir-anthony-ashley-cooper-1621-1683-who-in/)

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## More by Gilbert Burnet

> [One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/one-of-the-strangest-catastrophes-that-is-in-any-history-a-great-king/)

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> [An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/an-anecdote-is-related-of-sir-anthony-ashley-cooper-1621-1683-who-in/)

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> [The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/the-duke-of-buckingham-gave-me-once-a-short-but-severe-character-of/)

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> [There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/there-is-no-lasting-pleasure-but-contemplation-all-others-grow-flat/)

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> [...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/learning-chiefly-in-mathematical-sciences-can-so-swallow-up-and-fix/)

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> [Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/let-us-be-adventurers-for-another-world-it-is-at-least-a-fair-and/)

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> [. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/for-the-most-part-the-worst-instructed-and-the-least-knowing-of-any/)

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> [The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-burnet/the-law-of-england-is-the-greatest-grievance-of-the-nation-very/)

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