The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.John Tillotson
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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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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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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Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
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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
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