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Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.
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He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
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There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
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He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.
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Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
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The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.
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