16 quotes by Sir John Eliot

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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Truth

3.3 · 33 votes

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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Reason

4.9 · 64 votes

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Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Charity

4.0 · 33 votes · 192 reads

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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Fame

123 reads

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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Charity

3.4 · 36 votes · 153 reads

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Feelings
Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.
4.1 · 40 votes · 77 reads
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Nature
Death is the cure for all diseases.
3.8 · 28 votes · 129 reads
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Feelings
Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
4.8 · 21 votes · 10 reads
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Various
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
4.5 · 15 votes · 48 reads
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Defects
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
3.7 · 24 votes · 93 reads
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Nature
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
3.0 · 21 votes · 14 reads
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Feelings
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
3.6 · 51 votes · 24 reads
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Time
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
4.1 · 16 votes · 10 reads
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Nature
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
4.7 · 42 votes · 135 reads
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Feelings
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
3.8 · 31 votes · 154 reads
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Nature
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
3.6 · 61 votes · 180 reads
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