British author & Freemason (1726-1779)
The Friendship which is to be recommended, is union of affections, springing from a generous respect to virtue, and is maintained by harmony of manners. It's a great mistake to call every trifling commerce by this serious name; or to suppose that empty compliments and visits of ceremony, where no more's intended than to pass the time, and show the equipage, should pass for a real and well established Friendship. The frequency of the practice won't wipe off the absurdity; there is as wide a difference as between a bully and a man of honour.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Those who would have Friendship confined to the narrowest compass, have notions of it the most sublime: Tho' number, if practicable, may be highly useful.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Knowledge will soon become folly, when good sense ceases to be its guardian.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Happy are those men who live without ambition, distrust, or disguise.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
There is no people so miserable, but that at some time or other, in some respect or other, they have reason to account themselves happy. And if they would but duly consider how it is with many of their neighbours, they would find it their duty to be thankful, that it is no worse with themselves; for it is some relief to the unfortunate to show them that there are others yet more miserable.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Justice is a glorious and a communicative virtue, ordained for the common good of mankind, without any regard to itself. This it is, that keeps men from worrying one another, and preserves tranquility in the world. It is the bond of human society.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
All men must acknowledge Lying to be one of the most scandalous sins, that can be committed between man and man; a crime of a deep dye, and of an extensive nature, leading into innumerable sins; for Lying is practiced to deceive, to injure, betray, rob, destroy, and the like; Lying in this sense is the concealing of all other crimes, the sheep's clothing upon the wolf's back, the Pharisee's prayer, the harlot's blush, the hypocrite's paint, and Judas's kiss; in a word, it is mankind's darling sin, and the Devil's distinguished characteristic.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Whosoever would be wise, and consequently happy, must raze out of his mind all those false mistaken notions that have been imprinting there from his infancy; and endeavour to expel that pernicious infection of error, which it has been so long hatching from erroneous customs and examples, and, which will prove fatal to it, if too long neglected.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
The formal Hypocrite is very justly compared with a Nightingale. She is more in sound than in substance, a loud and excellent voice, but a little despicable body.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
God is Alpha and Omega in the great world, let us endeavour to make him so in the little world; let us practice to make him our last thought at night when we sleep; and our first in the morning when we awake; so shall our fancy be sanctified in the night, and our understanding rectified in the day; so shall our rest be peaceful, and our labours prosperous; our life pious, and our death glorious.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
A man may be happy anywhere that knows how to be contented.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Love not your children unequally; or if you do, show it not, lest you make the one proud, and the other envious, and both fools.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Justice consists in an exact and scrupulous regard to the rights of others, with a deliberate purpose to preserve them upon all occasions secret and inviolate.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
An impatient man is hurried along by his wild and furious desires into an abyss of miseries, the more extensive his power is, the more fatal is his Impatience to him, he will wait for nothing, he will not give himself any time to take measures, he forces all things to satisfy his wishes, he breaks the boughs to gather the fruit before it is ripe, he breaks down the gates rather than wait till they are opened, he will needs reap when the wise husbandman is sowing.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
If you neglect your Love to your Neighbour, in vain you profess your Love to God; for by your Love to God, your Love to your Neighbour is acquired; and by your Love to your Neighbour, you Love to God is nourished.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Hell is no less than the eternal and second death, in its utmost extent and terror, as, just in all respects the opposite to eternal life, 'tis the most finished misery of the wicked, wherein they are ternally separated from the pleasing perception of God, and the fruition of all kinds of good, confined in chains of despair and darkness, under the lively and afflicting sense of the punishing vengeance of the Deity, justly kindled and continually flaming against them for their offensive actions, and in a wise and equitable proportion to the measure of those offenses. So that they are filled with incessant stings and horrors of conscience, and tormented in soul and body with such painful and raging flames, as will forever distress, but never consume their bodies, or destroy a lively consciousness of guilt in their souls to all eternity.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Lying is a sin destructive to society; for there is no trade where there is no trust, and there is no trust where there is no truth.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Let your love advise before you choose, and your choice be fixed before you marry: Remember the happiness or misery of your life depends upon this one act, and ... nothing but death can dissolve the knot.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
There is no passion that more excites us to every thing that is noble and generous than virtuous Love.
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Thoughts Moral and Divine
Could we draw back the covering of the tomb; could we see, what those are now, who once were mortals, oh! how would it surprise and grieve us! Surprise us, to behold the prodigious transformation that has taken place on every individual; grieve us, to observe the dishonor done to our nature in general, within these subterraneous lodgments!
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