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... hath made it so much as proof against one disease , lest she should be thought to have made it no less than a prison to the soul . - Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury . ANGER . He that would be angry and sin not , must not be angry with ...
... hath made it so much as proof against one disease , lest she should be thought to have made it no less than a prison to the soul . - Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury . ANGER . He that would be angry and sin not , must not be angry with ...
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... hath moderately stored his mind with images , few writers afford any novelty ; or what little they have to add to the common stock of learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ore of lead ...
... hath moderately stored his mind with images , few writers afford any novelty ; or what little they have to add to the common stock of learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ore of lead ...
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... hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed ; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge . - Selden . CONSCIENCE , A TENDER . - A tender conscience is an ines- timable blessing : that is , a conscience ...
... hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed ; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge . - Selden . CONSCIENCE , A TENDER . - A tender conscience is an ines- timable blessing : that is , a conscience ...
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... hath run through a set of vanities in the declension of his age , he knows not what to do with himself if he cannot think . - Blount . CONTEMPT - Contempt is commonly taken by the young for an evidence of understanding ; but no habit of ...
... hath run through a set of vanities in the declension of his age , he knows not what to do with himself if he cannot think . - Blount . CONTEMPT - Contempt is commonly taken by the young for an evidence of understanding ; but no habit of ...
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... hath not taken all that pains in forming , and framing , and furnishing and adorning this world that they who were made by him to live in it should despise it ; it will be well enough if they do not love it so immoderately , to prefer ...
... hath not taken all that pains in forming , and framing , and furnishing and adorning this world that they who were made by him to live in it should despise it ; it will be well enough if they do not love it so immoderately , to prefer ...
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