Quotes by John Tillotson

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• Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

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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.

  ― John Tillotson
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• The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

  ― John Tillotson
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• The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

  ― John Tillotson
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• They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

  ― John Tillotson
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• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

  ― John Tillotson
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• To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''

  ― John Tillotson
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• Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• inconsideration
• continually
• transparent
• afflictions
• provocation
• flourishes

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