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When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
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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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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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
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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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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
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Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
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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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Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.
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With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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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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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
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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.
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