Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is, in reality, so much power.John Tillotson
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.
John Tillotson
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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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
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.
John Tillotson
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