While it is so difficult to learn the springs and motives of some facts, it is no wonder they should be so grossly misrepresented to the public by curious inquisitive heads.
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Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change.
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Hypocrisy is much more eligible than open infidelity and vice: it wears the livery of religion, and is cautious of giving scandal: nay, continued disguises are too great a constraint; men would leave off their vices rather than undergo the toil of practising them in private.
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Temperance, industry, and a public spirit, running through the whole body of the people in Holland, hath preserved an infant commonwealth of a sickly constitution, through so many dangers as a much more healthy one could never have struggled against without those advantages.
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Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.
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I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago, and have several things to finish which I put off to twenty years hence.
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If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Holy Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.
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Several clergymen, otherwise little fond of obscure terms, are in their sermons very liberal of all those which they find in ecclesiastical writers, as if it were our duty to understand them.
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You cannot but have observed what a violent run there is among: weak people against university education.
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Young men look rather to the past age than the present, and therefore the future may have some hopes of them.
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