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- And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
- All men would be tyrants if they could.
- As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
- The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again,…
- All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap…
- For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and…
- All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
- Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
- Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents…
- I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather…
- These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and…
- All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
- I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth…
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