Thomas Sprat Quotes
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What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
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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 in…
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Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.
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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 the…
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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 are…
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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, a…
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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
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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 of…
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