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... truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the persons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords ... truth itself appear like falsehood . VIRTUE should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid ...
... truths . MODESTY makes large amends for the pain it gives the persons who labour under it , by the prejudice it affords ... truth itself appear like falsehood . VIRTUE should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid ...
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... truth is not at the bottom , nature will always be endeav- ouring to return , and will betray herself at one time or other . Therefore if any man think it convenient to seem good , let him be so indeed , and then his goodness will ap ...
... truth is not at the bottom , nature will always be endeav- ouring to return , and will betray herself at one time or other . Therefore if any man think it convenient to seem good , let him be so indeed , and then his goodness will ap ...
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... truth , not trust- ed when perhaps he means honestly . When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity , nothing will then serve his turn , neither truth nor falsehood . INDEED , if a man were only to deal in the world ...
... truth , not trust- ed when perhaps he means honestly . When a man hath once forfeited the reputation of his integrity , nothing will then serve his turn , neither truth nor falsehood . INDEED , if a man were only to deal in the world ...
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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