Francis Atterbury
Francis Atterbury
Francis Atterburywas an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender. He was a noted wit and a gifted preacher...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 March 1663
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It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
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Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
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The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.
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He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.
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The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.
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What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.
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Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.
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A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.
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Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.
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It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.
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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
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Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.
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It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning,
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Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.