Quote about the fear of man

The fear of man brings a snare; it is a life of death, and the mind is so entirely suppressed by it, that it is capable of no relief; the animal spirits sink, and all the vigour of nature, which usually supports men under other afflictions, and is present to them in the greatest exigencies, fails them here. 

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Quote about the fear of man 

Being in constant fear

Nothing makes mankind so completely miserable as that of being in constant fear.

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Being in constant fear quote 

Man is a short sighted creature

Let no wise man flatter himself with the strength of his own judgment, as if he was able to choose any particular station of life for himself. Man is a short-sighted creature, sees but a very little way before him; and as his passions are none of his best friends, so his particular affections are generally his worst counsellors.

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Man is a short -sighted creature

Sins we commit against our indulgent parents

Whenever we come to look back upon our lives, the sins against our indulgent parents are certainly the first that touch us; the wounds they make lie deepest; and the weight they leave will lie heaviest upon the mind of all the sins we can commit.

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Teaching others quote

For attempting to teach others is sometimes the best way of teaching ourselves.

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Teaching others quote 

Trouble quote

In trouble to be troubled, is to have your trouble doubled.

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Trouble quote 

Quote about hunger

Hunger knows no friend,  no relation, no justice, no right; and therefore is remorseless, and capable of no compassion.

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Quote about hunger

Necessity quote

Necessity arms us for all employments.

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Necessity quote

Gossips about ghosts and apparitions

Persons of good judgment say, that all the stir people make in the world about ghosts and apparitions, is owing to the strength of imagination, and the powerful operation of fancy in their minds; that there is no such thing as a spirit appearing, or a ghost walking, and the like; that people`s poring affectionately upon the past conversation of their deceased friends so realizes it to them, that they are capable of fancying upon some extraordinary circumstances that they see them, talk to them, and are answered by them, when, in truth, there is nothing but shadow and vapour in the thing; and they really know nothing of the matter. 

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Gossips about ghosts and apparitions quote 

Bred in the bone quote

What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.

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Bred in the bone quote

Always having something to be thankful for

So little do we see before us in the world, and so much reason have we to depend cheerfully upon the great Maker of the world, that he does not leave his creatures so absolutely destitute, but that in the worst circumstances they have always something to be thankful for, and sometimes are nearer their deliverance than they imagine; nay, are even brought to their deliverance by the means by which they seem to be brought to their destruction.

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Being thankful quote 

Sometimes we are given secret hints of danger

Let no man despise the secret hints and notices of danger, which sometimes are given him when he may think there is no possibility of its being real. That such hints and notices are given us, I believe few that have made any observation of things can deny; that they are certain discoveries of an invisible world, and a converse of spirits, we cannot doubt; and if the tendency of them seems to be to warn us of danger, why should we not suppose they are from some friendly agent, ( whether supreme, or inferior and subordinate, is not the question, ) and that they are given for our good ?

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Not being aware of dangers surrounding us

How infinitely good that Providence is, which has settled in its government of mankind such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things; and though he walks in the midst of so many thousand dangers, the sight of which, if discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink his spirits, he is kept serene and calm, by having the events of things hid from his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him. 

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Not being aware of dangers surrounding us quote

There are some secret moving in the affections

There are some secret moving in the affections, which, when they are set a going by some object in view, or be it some object though not in view, yet rendered present to the mind by the power of imagination, that motion carries out the soul by its impetuosity to such violent eager embracings of the object, that the absence of it is insupportable. 

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Safety of one man is destruction of another

What is one man`s safety is another man`s destruction.

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Safety of one is destruction of another quote