Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquility of thy life.
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.Jeremy Taylor
The privative blessingsthe blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity which we enjoy deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
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