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Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor

Book by George Herbert · 4 quotes · Faults, Truth, Arguing

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“Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.”

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“Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.”

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“Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”

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“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

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