In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
From Robert South
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
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