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No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

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Strong, Passion, Men

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The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

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Nice, Men, Dust

John Tillotson (1712). “The works of the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses ... Together with the rule of faith”, p.386

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Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

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Reality, Religion, World

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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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Truth, Lines, Way

John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.16

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Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

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Helpful, Abstinence, Ends

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Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
And silent, settles into full revenge.

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Revenge, Anger, Storm

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With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

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Bible, Book, World

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Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

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Confidence, Hurt, Men

John Tillotson (1714). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses on several occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith. Being all that were published by His Grace himself and now collected into one volume, to which is added an alphabetical table of the principle matter”, p.530

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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

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Reality, World, Reputation

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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?

John Tillotson

Thinking, Men, Quality

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Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

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God, Men, Darkness

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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.

John Tillotson

Men, Bears, Sober

John Tillotson (1757). “The Works of the Most Reverend John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: In Twelve Volumes, Containing 254 Sermons and Discourses on Several Occassions; Together with the Rule of Faith; Prayers Composed by Him for His Own Life; a Discourse to His Servants Before the Sacrament; and a Form of Prayer Composed by Him for the Use of King William”, p.48

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Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

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Vices, Arbitrary, Wickedness

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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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Charity, May, Riches

John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.358

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If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.

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Men, Lasts, Needs

John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.18

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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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World, Littles, Sincere

"The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions".

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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

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Gratitude, Evil, Affliction

John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.104

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For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

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Christian, Believe, Men

John Tillotson (1685). “A discourse against transubstantiation”, p.40

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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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Men, Use, Benefits

John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.696

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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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Christian, Men, Wicked

John Tillotson (1722). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: containing two hundred sermons and discourses ... To which are annexed prayers composed by him for his own use; a discourse to his servants before the Sacrament; and a form of prayer composed by him, for the use of King William ... together with tables to the whole ...”, p.372

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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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Inspirational, Thinking, Imperfection

John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.412

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There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

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Men, Soul, Wicked

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Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

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Wickedness, Kind, Distraction

John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.184

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The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.

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Lying, Men, Giving

John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.186

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In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

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Drinking, Sleep, Night

John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.150

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Died: November 22, 1694
Occupation: Archbishop of Canterbury
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