John Tillotson Quotes
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True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not the many that think they have it, but the few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
[Wisdom]
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Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on the rack, and one trick needs a great many more of the same kind to make it good.
[Truth]
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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience - from a secret dread of the divine displeasure, and of the vengeance of another world?
[Wickedness]
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When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
[Reputation]
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When we have practised 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.
[Habit]
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When wit trangresses decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety.
[Wit]
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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.
[Religion]
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
[Zeal]
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