Reacting to evangelists' fondness for quoting Isaiah 118, 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow....' All my sins are grey.
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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.William Temple
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
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