Roger L'Estrange Quotes
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All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.
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If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.
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The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.
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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
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He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.
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It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.
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There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.
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The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
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Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.
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Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.
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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
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By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.
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Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.
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So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.
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Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
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Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
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There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must.
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There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.
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He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.
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Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.
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Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.
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The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
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Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.
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Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.
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It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
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We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.
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Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
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Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.
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To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?
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