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• A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

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  Wise, Blessing, Community

  Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.58

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• A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

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  Humble, People, Victory

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• What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

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  Charity, Use, Life Is

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• It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

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  Wise, Men, Order

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• Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

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  School, Affliction, Virtue

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• The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

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  Ministers, Priesthood, Nations

  Francis Atterbury (1709). “A Sermon Preach'd Before the Sons of the Clergy, At Their Anniversary-Meeting In The Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, Dec. 6. 1709”, p.8

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