John Tillotson Quotes

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

John Tillotson

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

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• As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

  

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• Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Confidence
  • Hurt