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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.
Let each man have according to his deserts.
Let each man have according to his deserts.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.
