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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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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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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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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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Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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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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None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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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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Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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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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Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
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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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We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.
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And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.
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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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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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