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As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.
No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!
It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.
Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer_x000D_ the Devil always builds a chapel there;_x000D_ And 't will be found, upon examination,_x000D_ the latter has the largest congregation.
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart; wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.
In their religion they are so uneven, _x000D__x000D_ That each man goes his own byway to heaven.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
Actions receive their tincture from the times,_x000D__x000D_And as they change are virtues made or crimes
Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.
I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.
I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no not the taking off of the ground, one of those knives is worth all this heap, I have no manner of use for thee, e'en remain where thou art, and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving. However, upon second thoughts, I took it away.
Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.
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