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Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions.

Bernard de Mandeville

For unhappy is the People, and their Constitution will be ever precarious, whose Welfare must depend upon the Virtues and Consciences of Ministers and Politicians.
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Constitution Depend Minister Politician Virtue Welfare
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
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Consequences Opportunity People Poorer Sort Substance
Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.
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Accomplishment Good Hateful Nature Outside Pity Qualities
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir’d by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
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Example Flatter Manner Names Pride Quality
Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, “I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it.
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Faith God Grasp Promise Remember Testifies
They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company.
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Abstract Animal Art Examine Men Observe
There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
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Language Latin Learning Military War
Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
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Cures Prudence Serviceable Thing Want
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.
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Hospitals Pride Together Vanity
Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions.
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Awaiting Children Emotions Faith Feelings Inheritance Possession
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
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Inferior Laziness Lazy Service
The more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.
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Convinced Flatter More Offspring Political Pride
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
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Alterable Comfort Gold Money Shilling Twenties
The taking of Snuff and smoking of Tobacco; both which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!
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Addicted Indefinite More Smoking Tobacco
Miss is scarce three years old, but she’s spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
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Hide Leg Little Master Miss Piss Scare Shows
If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask’d where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true Happiness,
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Ask Greatness Home Men