Quotes by Thomas Wilson

Thomas Wilson

English bishop and writer

Lived from: 1663 - 1755

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

Born: 20 december 1663 Died: 7 march 1755

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• It costs more to revenge than to bear with injuries.

  Maximes 75

  ― Thomas Wilson
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• There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

  Maxims (1781) 109

  ― Thomas Wilson
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• When we attend a funeral, we are apt to comfort ourselves with the happy difference there is betwixt us and our dead friend.

  Maxims (1781)

  ― Thomas Wilson
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understands
• difference
• comfort
• betwixt
• friend

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