# bib

id: A85437
author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.
date: 1680
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flesch: 76
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title:
  Most holy and profitable sayings of that reverend divine, Doctor Tho. Goodwin Who departed this life, Feb. 23. 1679/80.

summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A85437) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 152660) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A36221
author: Dod, John, 1549?-1645.
title: Old Mr. Dod's sayings
date: 1671
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mime: application/xml
words: 3116
sentence: 173
flesch: 81
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summary:
  There is no Affliction so small , but we should sink under it , if God upheld not ; and there is no Sin so great , but we should commit it , if God restrained not . It is not crying out upon the Devil , nor declaiming against Sin in Prayer or Discourse , but fighting with the Devil , and mortifyings our Lusts , that God chiefly looks upon . XXXV .


id: A18370
author: Chamberlain, Robert, b. 1607.
date: 1638
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mime: application/xml
words: 8384
sentence: 367
flesch: 73
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title:
  Nocturnall lucubrations: or Meditations divine and morall Whereunto are added epigrams and epitaphs: written by Rob: Chamberlain of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.

summary:
  APollos skill , the Grecian pen for wars , And Virgils too , transcēd the glittring stars : Praise makes men live , but thou a child unfit , Transcends the limits of an old mans wit. To incurre Gods displeasure for mans favour , is for a man to kill himselfe to avoid a hurt .


id: A49597
author: Davies, John, 1625-1693.
title: Epictetus junior, or, Maximes of modern morality in two centuries / collected by J.D. of Kidwelly.
date: 1670
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mime: application/xml
words: 13552
sentence: 607
flesch: 65
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summary:
  It is a slight sally of Pride , whereby it humbles it self before men , out of a design to advance it self above them . Its compliances are not to be represented ; its transformations exceed those of Poetical Metamorphoses ; and its sublimations of things transcend those of Chymistry it self .


id: A41737
author: Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.
date: 1652
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mime: application/xml
words: 14315
sentence: 556
flesch: 66
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title:
  The heroe of Lorenzo, or, The way to eminencie and perfection a piece of serious Spanish wit / originally in that language written ; and in English by Sir John Skeffington, Kt. and Barronet.

summary:
  To penetrate the whole Designes of others , is a mark of eminent capacity ; but to be able to conceal a mans own , is an incomparable superiority : To discover passion to another is all one to open him a wicket to enter the fortress of our capacity : And hence it is that politick spies raise all their battery , and for the most part make all their assaults in Triumph : The Affections being once discovered , the entries and out-gates of the will are all understood , beside a perpetuall power over us at all times . Beside it is a peece of dexterity to be alwayes encountred with plausible employments , and a point of good discretion to suborn common attention , by the splendor of brave undertakings the Eminencie thereof appeares to all , and the reputation is setled by every mans vote .


id: A54216
author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
date: 1693
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mime: application/xml
words: 15092
sentence: 941
flesch: 82
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title:
  Some fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. Licens'd, May 24. 1693.

summary:
  Let us then not cozen our selves with the Shels and Husks of things ; nor prefer Form to Power , nor Shadows to Substance : Pictures of Bread will not satisfy Hunger , nor those of Devotion please God. The Author blesseth God for his Retirement , and kisses that gentle Hand which lead him into it .


id: A36291
author: Done, John.
title: A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.
date: 1650
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words: 18406
sentence: 669
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Paradise was created and the man in it , of pure and incorruptible Elements , and the corruptible World for all other things ; but by mans breach of Gods Commandements , the puritie being taken away , man became Companion with the other Creatures , and by feeding on those Corruptible things , by little and little was so thrust out of Paradice ; that is , out of Incorruptibilitie or tree of life , into Corruptibilitie , and death . Right Honourable Lord , IF the life of man were onely intended but to eate , drinke , complement , and sleepe ; it might agree with that Epitaph of Heliogabalus , Ede , bibe , lude , post mortem nulla voluptas , and so become meere Animall .


id: A56988
author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
title: Institutions, essays and maxims, political, moral & divine divided into four centuries.
date: 1695
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words: 27320
sentence: 1302
flesch: 76
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summary:
  The first , by the Virtue of glorious Parents , which till thou degenerate too much may raise thee upon the wings of Opinion . Hast thou lost thy Money , and dost thou Mourn ? another lost it before thou hadst it ; Be not troubled ; perchance if thou hadst not lost it now , it had lost thee for ever : Think therefore What thou hast rather escaped than lost :


id: A56827
author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27017
sentence: 1109
flesch: 72
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title:
  Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]

summary:
  Think of God ( especially in thy Devotion ) in the Abstract , rather than in the Concrete : If thou conceive him good , thy finite Thoughts are ready to terminate that Good in a conceiv'd Subject ; if thou think him great , thy bounded Conceit is apt to cast him into a comprehensible Figure : When thou dost Evil , that Good may come thereby , the Evil is surely thine ; if Good should happen to ensue upon the Evil which thou hast done , the Good proceeds from God : If therefore thou do Evil , thereby to occasionate a Good , thou lay'st a bad Foundation for a good Building , and servest the Devil , that God may serve thee .


id: A56976
author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
date: 1644
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mime: application/xml
words: 27341
sentence: 1304
flesch: 76
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title:
  Enchiridion Containing institutions, divine contemplative. Practicall. Moral ethicall. Oeconomicall. Politicall. Written by Fra: Quarles.

summary:
  IF thou be ambitious of Honour , and yet fearfull of the Canker of Honour , Envy ; so behave thy self , that Opinion may be satisfied in this , that thou seekest Merit , and not ●●me ; and that thou attribute●t thy Preferment rather to Providence , then thy own Vertue : Honour is a due debt to the deserver ; and who ever envied the payment of a debt ? a just advancement is a providentiall act , and who ever envied the act of Providence ? CHAP. WHen thou dost evil that good may come thereby , the evill is surely thine : if good should happen to ensue upon the evill which thou hast done ; the good proceeds from God ; if therefore thou doe evill , thereby to occasionate a good , thou la●●t a bad foundation for a good building ; and ●ervest the Devill that God may serve thee : where the end of evill is good in the intention , there the end of that good is evill in the extention . CHAP. XLI .


id: A03025
author: Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.
date: 1631
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words: 32113
sentence: 769
flesch: 64
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title:
  Horæ succisivæ, or, Spare-houres of meditations upon our duty to [brace] God, others, our selves / by Ios. Henshaw.

summary:
  There is a double life in man , and must bee a double nourishment , men live as if there were no more to bee done , but feede and be warme , food and rayment are the maine businesses of the World : 'T is true , wealth and friends and health are things to thanke God for , but better desires better becomes Christians ; the Christian man lives not by bread onely , &c. Meate for the belly and the belly for meate , but God shall destroy both it and them , every good mans meate and drinke is to do the will of Him that sent him . That ground is verie hard , where the travellers foot leaves not impression : and that heart 's very stonie , where Gods blessing not only takes no roote , but leaves no signe , as soone forgotten as receiv'd ; 't is all He askes for all He doth , a thankfull heart : With what face can wee expect God should give us our asking , that deny Him His ? God made other creatures for mans service , man for His owne : them for our use , and us for His glorie : How much , O Lord , do we owe to thee for our selves and them , that hast so abounded to us , above them , and hast not made them but for us ? Teach us to give our selves to thee , for them , who hast given them to us , for our selves .


id: A49601
author: Ailly, d'. Mixed thoughts.
date: 1694
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words: 33602
sentence: 1755
flesch: 77
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title:
  Moral maxims and reflections in four parts / written in French by the Duke of Rochefoucault ; now made English.

summary:
  All Devotion , which is not grounded upon Christian Humility , and the Love of our Neighbour , is no better than Form and Pretence ; 't is only the Pride and Peevishness of Philosophy , which thinks by despising the World , to revenge it self upon all the Contempt and Dissatisfactions , Men have met with from it . But , Sir , you need not be informed what a propensity there is in this Age to publish all manner of Novelties , and especially those that go under any celebrated Name , which of it self is sufficient to recommend them to the World.


id: A41733
author: Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.
date: 1685
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words: 55539
sentence: 4009
flesch: 83
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title:
  The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.

summary:
  MAXIME . Oracles are the glimmerings of a supernatural light , which do rather dazle than illuminate those who are not both attentive , and sharp sighted : And therefore the Maximes which here bear that name , are not calculated for all degrees of Men , nor for all sorts of Vnderstandings .


