Francis Atterbury Quotes - Page 2

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• A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

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  Humble, People, Victory

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• Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

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  Mean, Solitude, Encounters

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• It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

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  Wise, Men, Order

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• Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

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  School, Affliction, Virtue

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• The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

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  Ministers, Priesthood, Nations

  Francis Atterbury (1709). “A Sermon Preach'd Before the Sons of the Clergy, At Their Anniversary-Meeting In The Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, Dec. 6. 1709”, p.8

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• Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

  Francis Atterbury

  Causes, Drink, Invisible

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