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• Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in…
• In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
• Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
• Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on…
• Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
• How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground…
• Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of…
• There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.
• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend…
• For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two…
• For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our…

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