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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…
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on…
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Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
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How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground…
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Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of…
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There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend…
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For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two…
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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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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being…
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Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
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God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier…
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