So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from us than it was at first
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though 'the commandments of God be not grievous,' yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.John Tillotson
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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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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