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Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
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The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to others, does what in him lies to draw them into sin; and if they do not follow it, that is no mitigation of his fault.
John Tillotson
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Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
John Tillotson -
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
John Tillotson -
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson -
In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
John Tillotson -
For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.
John Tillotson -
Great is the advantage of patience.
John Tillotson