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... heart is no island cut " off from other lands , but " a continent that joins to 66 them ; if he be compas- " sionate towards the af- " flictions of others , it " shews that his heart is " like the noble tree that " is wounded itself ...
... heart is no island cut " off from other lands , but " a continent that joins to 66 them ; if he be compas- " sionate towards the af- " flictions of others , it " shews that his heart is " like the noble tree that " is wounded itself ...
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... heart , doth not discern that frail men , in some of their contradictions , intend the same thing and accepteth of both ? The nature of such controversies is excellently expressed by St. Paul , in the warning and precept that he giveth ...
... heart , doth not discern that frail men , in some of their contradictions , intend the same thing and accepteth of both ? The nature of such controversies is excellently expressed by St. Paul , in the warning and precept that he giveth ...
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... , than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a light- some ground : judge , therefore , of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when / 16 OF ADVERSITY .
... , than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a light- some ground : judge , therefore , of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when / 16 OF ADVERSITY .
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... heart to know when to tell truth , and to do it : therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted well with the arts " of her husband , and dissimulation of her son ; at- 66 ...
... heart to know when to tell truth , and to do it : therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers . Tacitus saith , " Livia sorted well with the arts " of her husband , and dissimulation of her son ; at- 66 ...
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... the ease of a man's heart , so secret men come to the know- ledge of many things in that kind ; while men rather discharge their minds than impart their minds . In few words , mysteries are due to 18 OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION .
... the ease of a man's heart , so secret men come to the know- ledge of many things in that kind ; while men rather discharge their minds than impart their minds . In few words , mysteries are due to 18 OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION .
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