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Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

John Tillotson

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John Tillotson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1630
Born: October 10
Died: 1694
Died: November 22
Archbishop Of Canterbury
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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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If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?
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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 by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
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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.
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Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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Integrity gains strength by use.
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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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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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If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
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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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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.
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If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
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If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
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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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Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?
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The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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