- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
- Giddy
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- Nov 07, 2020
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
- Life Is Too Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020