Thomas Creech Quotes

• He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

  Thomas Creech

  Lying, Mind, Guilt

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• They that do much themselves deny,
  Receive more blessings from the sky.

  Thomas Creech

  Blessing, Sky, Denial

  Horace, Thomas Creech (1715). “The Odes: Satires, and Epistles of Horace. Done Into English by Mr. Creech”, p.95

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• To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;)
  Is the only method that I know,
  To make men happy, and to keep them so.

  Thomas Creech

  Men, Admiration, Method

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 9), 1922.

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• For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
  Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

  Thomas Creech

  Faults, Crime, Danger

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• What studies please, what most delight,
  And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.

  Thomas Creech

  Dream, Night, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Thomas Creech (1714). “Of the nature of things: in six books”, p.389

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