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Roger L'Estrange was an English author and translator, renowned for his translation of the Bible into English, which was widely used during the 17th and 18th centuries. He was also a playwright and poet, contributing to the literary scene of his era.

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All Men May Doe Ends Mind Wit Common Fool Ifs Miserable

Famous Roger L'Estrange Quotes

“There are ways of Deceiving the Eyes, as well as of Blinding them; so that the Cause of the Innocent must be remitted at last to that Great and Final Decision, where there is no longer any Place for Passion, Partiality, Corruption, or Error. But as to the Business of This World, when the Cocks and the Lambs lie at the Mercy of the Cats and Wolves, they must never expect better Quarter; especially where the Hearts Blood of the One, is the Nourishment and Entertainment of the Other.”

Justice Lies Injustice

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop

“Innocence is no Protection against the Arbitrary Cruelty of a Tyrannical Power : But Reason and Conscience are yet so Sacred, that the Greatest Villanies are still Contenanc'd under that Cloak and Color.”

Reason Conscience Cruelty Innocence

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop

“Tis the Fate of All Gotham-Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.”

Fables Moral Of The Story

Book:Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

Source: Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

“He that has the Longer Sword, shall never want, either Lawyers, or Divines to Defend his Claim.”

Money Talks Might Makes Right

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, with Morals and Reflections and Fables and Stories Moralized: Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop

“A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal”

Two Thirds Universal Scandal Applause

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“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.”

Should Liberty One Thing Tied Submit Censure Tied Up Contending

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Wickedness may prosper for a while.”

Book:Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected

Source: Fables of Aesop ... By Sir Roger L'Estrange ... The Fifth Edition Corrected

“We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.”

Thinking Life Mind Ends Vain Repentance

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

“Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.”

Law Names Letters Injustice Tyranny Equity

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.”

Doe Degrees Beats Anger Descending Shrews

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

“It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.”

Men Way Given Attention Fool Calling

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.”

Pushing Avarice Insatiable Pushing On

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?”

Men World Wells Talking Ass Loud

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.”

Men Bores Tedious Mortification Studious

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.”

Wells May Littles Dream Body Too Much Stress Lays Heed

Book:Fables of Aesop

Source: Fables of Aesop

“All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.”

Matter Force Duty Conscience Obligation Superiors Inferiors Restriction

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.”

Hands Clear Mouths Lays Fingers Envy Pot Ink

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“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.”

People Men Common Virtue Figures Example Judging Morality Vices Stamps Immorality Do Not Judge

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.”

Men Opinion Sick Cures Miserable Fancy

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“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?”

Men Wish Opinion Longing Wander Venture Loathing Morrow Hankering

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.”

Needs Long Gratitude Benefits Cheaper

Book:Seneca's Morals, by Way of Abstract: To which is Added, a Discourse Under the Title of An After Thought : Adorned with Plates

Source: Seneca's Morals, by Way of Abstract: To which is Added, a Discourse Under the Title of An After Thought : Adorned with Plates

“Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.”

Obliged Sour Ungrateful

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.”

Ifs Men Courses Promise Vow Inconsistency

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

“A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.”

Way Ends Journey Diligence Advancing Fluttering

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

“Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.”

Men Ingratitude

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“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.”

Men Looks Character Habit Conversation Judgment Appearance Judged

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.”

Made Parent Danger Fool Unlucky Partiality Fondling

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.”

May Creatures Gains Perseverance Resolution

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.”

Men Way Looks Fairs Currents Payment Pretension Pretence

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.”

Humans Reason Force Brutal Opposing Human Reason Stratagem

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

“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.”

Book Reading Views Quality Taught Sweet Faults Former Latter Bees Spiders Juice Profitable Poisonous Venomous

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.”

May Said Happiness Principles

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

“Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.”

Love Matter Eye Fierce Mist

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.”

Men Giving Doe Ends Money Honest Fool All Things Philosopher Chapters Honest Man Knaves

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

“Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.”

Purpose Passion Water Fire Worst Masters Servant

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?”

Heart May Mean Ends Sound Prayer Affection Application

Book:Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

Source: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections

“Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.”

Men Opinion Practice Favors Indulge Pretension

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.”

Men Doe Soul Whole Body Lying Given Senses Given Up Sloth

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.”

Men Want Doe Enough Slave Senses Satisfied Abundance Live Free

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.”

Should Teaching Behave Pupils Tutor

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.”

People Thinking Made Character Humanity Quality Exercise Degrees Dignity Manners Titles Good Man Stamps Transport Good Manners Genealogy Good Nature Haughtiness

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“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.”

May Littles Universe Too Much Mankind Grain Particles Trifles

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.”

Exercise Tyrants Arbitrary

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

“Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.”

Ifs Half Taken Vanity Imperfection Proclamation

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

“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.”

Ifs Should Would Be Christian Virtue Vices Cease Generous Charitable Ungrateful

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.”

Men Care Pain Lying Lost Wealth Grief Poverty Honest Riches Good Man Inconvenience

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.”

Men Brain Wit Offspring Minerva

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.”

Common Enemy Mankind Wit Spares Foe Common Enemy

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

“The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.”

Enough Strong Sun Wit Soil Thrive Strong Enough Not Strong Not Strong Enough Pleasantries

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.”

Men May Laughing Wit Lowest Amused

Author:Roger L'Estrange