item: #1 of 13
          id: A03025
      author: Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.
       title: Horæ succisivæ, or, Spare-houres of meditations upon our duty to [brace] God, others, our selves / by Ios. Henshaw.
        date: 1631
       words: 32113
      flesch: 64
     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 .
    keywords: bee; body; care; day; death; doe; doth; dye; god; goe; good; hath; heaven; hee; life; love; man; men; owne; selfe; selves; sinne; soule; thee; thinke; thou; time; want; way; wee; world
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: A18370
      author: Chamberlain, Robert, b. 1607.
       title: Nocturnall lucubrations: or Meditations divine and morall Whereunto are added epigrams and epitaphs: written by Rob: Chamberlain of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.
        date: 1638
       words: 8384
      flesch: 73
     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 .
    keywords: end; english; god; good; heaven; hee; himselfe; learning; man; mans; misery; patience; praise; reason; soule; spring; tcp; text; thee; thing; thou; thoughts; thy; time; way; world
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: A36221
      author: Dod, John, 1549?-1645.
       title: Old Mr. Dod's sayings
        date: 1671
       words: 3116
      flesch: 81
     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 .
    keywords: devil; god; man; sin; tcp; text; things
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: A36291
      author: Done, John.
       title: A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.
        date: 1650
       words: 18406
      flesch: 68
     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 .
    keywords: actions; bee; body; doe; doth; earth; evill; fire; foole; god; good; goodnesse; hath; hee; himselfe; life; love; man; mans; men; nature; owne; reason; saviour; soule; spirit; sunne; text; thee; things; thinke; thou; thoughts; thy; times; viz; wee; words; world
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: A41733
      author: Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.
       title: The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.
        date: 1685
       words: 55539
      flesch: 83
     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 .
    keywords: actions; art; body; care; contrary; doe; fortune; friends; good; great; hath; heart; honour; humour; ibid; judgment; knowledge; life; man; max; maxime; men; mind; nature; nay; ones; people; perfection; pleasure; prudence; reason; reputation; self; shew; speak; things; thou; time; truth; use; vulgar; way; wit; words; world
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: A41737
      author: Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.
       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.
        date: 1652
       words: 14315
      flesch: 66
     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 .
    keywords: alexander; applause; day; eminencie; excellencie; fame; fortune; greatnes; hath; heart; heroe; king; man; men; nature; perfection; reputation; self; set; subject; text; things; thou; way; wit; world
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        item: #7 of 13
          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
       words: 13552
      flesch: 65
     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 .
    keywords: actions; desire; effect; fear; hath; love; man; men; merit; mind; nature; passions; persons; proceeds; self; selves; text; things; times; vanity; world
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: A49601
      author: Ailly, d'. Mixed thoughts.
       title: Moral maxims and reflections in four parts / written in French by the Duke of Rochefoucault ; now made English.
        date: 1694
       words: 33602
      flesch: 77
     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.
    keywords: actions; body; faults; fortune; good; hath; honour; interest; life; love; man; men; mind; nature; ones; passion; people; persons; power; pride; reason; reflections; self; selves; soul; thing; time; truth; use; vertue; way; wit; world
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: A54216
      author: Penn, William, 1644-1718.
       title: Some fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. Licens'd, May 24. 1693.
        date: 1693
       words: 15092
      flesch: 82
     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 .
    keywords: business; god; good; government; life; love; man; men; nature; reason; religion; right; self; selves; thee; things; thou; time; world
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: A56827
      author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.
       title: Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]
        date: 1698
       words: 27017
      flesch: 72
     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 .
    keywords: art; canst; danger; desire; end; evil; fear; glory; god; good; hath; heart; honour; life; love; man; max; pleasure; prince; self; sin; soul; thee; thine; thou; thy; war; way; wisdom
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: A56976
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Enchiridion Containing institutions, divine contemplative. Practicall. Moral ethicall. Oeconomicall. Politicall. Written by Fra: Quarles.
        date: 1644
       words: 27341
      flesch: 76
     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 .
    keywords: art; canst; chap; danger; death; desire; end; enemy; evill; feare; glory; god; gods; good; hand; hath; heart; himselfe; honour; lesse; life; love; man; men; owne; pleasure; prince; selfe; thee; thine; thou; thou canst; thy; vertue; way; ● ●
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: A56988
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: Institutions, essays and maxims, political, moral & divine divided into four centuries.
        date: 1695
       words: 27320
      flesch: 76
     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 :
    keywords: art; canst; danger; death; desire; end; evil; fear; glory; god; god max; good; hath; heart; honour; life; love; man; max; pleasure; prince; self; sin; soul; thee; thine; thou; thy; virtue; war; way; wisdom
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: A85437
      author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.
       title: Most holy and profitable sayings of that reverend divine, Doctor Tho. Goodwin Who departed this life, Feb. 23. 1679/80.
        date: 1680
       words: 1599
      flesch: 76
     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).
    keywords: death; eebo; english; tcp; text
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