Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
- Thomas Sprat
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. - Thomas Sprat
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also a… - Thomas Sprat
Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also a…
In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers. - Thomas Sprat
In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinen… - Thomas Sprat
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinen…
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a tho… - Thomas Sprat
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a tho…
They have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the cause, till the trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making o… - Thomas Sprat
They have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the cause, till the trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in the making o…
Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren. - Thomas Sprat
Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be. - Thomas Sprat
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.
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