It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Desiderius Erasmus
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.
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God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
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