John Tillotson Quotes

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
John Tillotson

Art, Less, Deceit

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson

Good, Nothing, Silence

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson

Great, Ignorance, Two

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson

Great, Mind, Forgive

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
John Tillotson

Person, Dark, Walk

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson

Men, Wise, Fools

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.
John Tillotson

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
John Tillotson

Power, Liberty, Places

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Theologian

Born: 1630

Died: November 22, 1694

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