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Integrity gains strength by use.

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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Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
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When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
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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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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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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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Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
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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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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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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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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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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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Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
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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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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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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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If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
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When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
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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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Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
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