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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
He who has no mind to trade with the devil, should be so wise as to keep away from his shop.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
Anger [is], according to some, a transient hatred, or at least very like it.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
Innocence is like polished armour; it adorns, and it defends.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a persuasion that it cannot be done.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
[T]here never was any heart truly great and generous' that was not also tender and compassionate.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
[I]f there be any truer measure of a man, than by what he does, it must be, by what he gives.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
[W]onder is from surprise; and surprise ceases upon experience.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
[N]o man's religion ever survives his morals.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, by degrees gnawing and creeping into it, as that does; till at length it has eat out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
[S]ociety is built upon trust, and trust upon the confidence that men have of one another's integrity.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
[H]e that despairs limits an infinite power to a finite apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little contracted model.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the Rudiments of Paradise.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
[M]ost of the appearing mirth in the world is not mirth, but art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)
[T]hough reason is not to be relied upon, as a guide universally sufficient to direct us what to do; yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyed, where it tells us what we are not to do.
Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions (1727)