"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes……" — John Tillotson
"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind."
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33 Quotes by John Tillotson
John Tillotson has 33 quotes on this site.
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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…
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and…
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease…
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For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were…
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For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received…
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He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
— Richard Armour
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
— Rowan Atkinson
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
— Saint Augustine
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So…
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