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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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None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
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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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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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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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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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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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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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The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
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Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
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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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With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
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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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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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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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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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Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
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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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Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
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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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