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Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.


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What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.



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Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.



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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.



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All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.



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It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.



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In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.



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Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.



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Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.



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Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.



Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.





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