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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 to our cure.
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.
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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 before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?
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Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
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The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.
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Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.
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A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.
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Though moral certainty be sometimes taken for a high degree of probability, which can only produce a doubtful assent, yet it is also frequently used for a firm assent to a thing upon such grounds as fully satisfy a prudent man.
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John Tillotson
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Born:
1630
Died:
November 22, 1694
(aged 64)
Bio:
John Tillotson was the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694.
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