John Tillotson quotes

" A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing. " # Silence # Love # Words

" Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. " # Ignorance

" Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. " # Affliction # Evil # Adversity

" The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. " # Deception # Life and Living # Danger

" The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. " # Deception # Arts and Artists # Time and Time Management

" To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. " # Forgiveness # Argument # Courage

" They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. " # Liberty # Power # Freedom

" Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. " # Sincerity # Travel and Tourism # Failure

" Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. " # Zeal # Fools and Foolishness # Wisdom