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• The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold…
• Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but…
• Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise…
• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…
• He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for…
• Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the…
• Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same…
• That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
• Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
• The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but…
• Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard…
• We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only…

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