British author & Freemason (1726-1779)
An honest man lives not to the world, but to himself.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
The nearest way to Honour is for a man so to live that he may be found to be that in truth he would be thought to be.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
There is no duty in religion more generally agreed on, nor more justly required by God almighty, than a perfect submission to his will in all things: Nor is there any disposition of mind that can either please him more or become us better, than that of being satisfied with all he gives, and contented with all he takes away; none, I am sure, can be of more honour to God, nor more easy to ourselves; for if we consider him as our maker we cannot contend with him; if as our father we ought not to distrust him; so that we may be confident, whatever he does is intended for our good; and whatever happens that we may interpret otherwise, yet we cannot get nothing by repining, nor save anything by resisting.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Affliction is a spiritual physic for the soul, and is compared to a furnace, for as gold is tried and purified therein, so men are proved and either purified from their dross, and fitted for good uses, or else entirely burnt up and undone forever.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Anger may repast with you for an hour, but not repose with you for a night. The continuance of Anger, is hatred; the continuance of hatred becomes malice; that Anger is not warrantable that has suffered the sun to set on it.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Storms in the Conscience will always lodge clouds in the countenance.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
In the book of Nature, the Divine Teacher speaks.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Let a man live but two or three years without Affliction, and he is almost good for nothing.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Luxury is artificial poverty; and no man has so much care as he who endeavours after the most riches.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Nothing contributes more to make men polite and civilized, than true and genuine Charity.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
We bring into the world a poor, needy, uncertain life, short at the best; all the imaginations of the wise have been busied to find out the ways how to revive it with pleasure, or relieve it with counsel; how to compose it with ease, and settle it with safety; to some of these ends have been employed the instructions of Lawgivers, the reasonings of Philosophers, the inventions of Poets, the pains of labouring, and the extravagancies of the Voluptuous; all the world is at work perpetually about nothing else, but only that our poor mortal lives should pass the easier and the happier that little time we possess them; or else end the better when we lose them.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Anger glances in the breasts of wise men; but rests in the bosom of fools.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
The utmost we can hope for in this world is Contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Anger comes sometimes upon us, but we go oftener to it, and, instead of rejecting it, we invite it: Yet it is a vice that carries with it neither pleasure nor profit, neither honour nor security.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
It is the business of a man, either to prevent an evil that threatens him, or, when it is come, to qualify and alleviate its malignity; or put on a masculine brave spirit, and to resolve to endure it.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
It is the duty of every individual, to be a friend to mankind, as it is his interest, that men should be friendly to him.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Conscience therefore is a high and awful power; it is solo Deo minor, next and immediately under God, our judge.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Charity no sooner begins to take root in the heart, but it makes all those weaknesses vanish at once. It softens what is hard and rough; it cures that presumption and haughtiness that pretends to decide and judge of every thing; it instructs us how to doubt, and how to reflect; to be teachable and not to rely too much on our own wisdom and understanding. It destroys all manner of positiveness, and moderates the very tone of our voice; and in such persons, as are already polite and endowed with the qualities that render people lovely to the rest of mankind, it gives this charming outside a motive and an inward principle far different from self-love.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
For no man lives, who always happy is.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
There is a set of imperious and arrogant people, with whom it is dangerous to engage, that always arrogate reason and sense to themselves, and allow no one else to be in the right.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine