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There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them, by laying them out in charity (John Tillotson Quotes)
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind (John Tillotson Quotes)
The little and short sayings of nice and excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds (John Tillotson Quotes)
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man (John Tillotson Quotes)
When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit (John Tillotson Quotes)
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing (John Tillotson Quotes)
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent (John Tillotson Quotes)
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed (John Tillotson Quotes)
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind (John Tillotson Quotes)
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 (John Tillotson Quotes)
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line (John Tillotson Quotes)
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? (John Tillotson Quotes)
He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever (John Tillotson Quotes)
In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power (John Tillotson Quotes)
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good (John Tillotson Quotes)
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men (John Tillotson Quotes)
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions (John Tillotson Quotes)
True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not (John Tillotson Quotes)
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 (John Tillotson Quotes)
Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed (John Tillotson Quotes)
If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state (John Tillotson Quotes)
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user (John Tillotson Quotes)
Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be (John Tillotson Quotes)
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere besides the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. I am sure no other is comparable to this (John Tillotson Quotes)
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by (John Tillotson Quotes)
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness (John Tillotson Quotes)
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men (John Tillotson Quotes)
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