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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them.
With what reason canst thou expect that they children should follow thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example?
Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.
If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
Day's Collacon: An Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884)
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none; and then they endeavour to persuade themselves so, and will be glad to find arguments to fortify themselves in this persuasion.
The Folly of Scoffing at Religion (1671)
The being of God is so comfortable, so convenient, so necessary to the felicity of Mankind, that, (as Tully admirably says) Dii immortales ad usum hominum fabricati pene videantur, if God were not a necessary being of himself, he might almost seem to be made on purpose for the use and benefit of men.
With what reason canst thou expect that thy children should follow thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example? Thou dost but as it were beckon to them with thy head, and shew them the way to heaven by thy good counsel, but thou takest them by the hand and leadest them in the way to hell by thy contrary example.