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A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools. - [Story Telling] Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. - [Astrology] Error is but the shadow of the truth. - [Error] Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity. - [God] Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. - [Atheism] Peace and wickedness are far asunder. - [Wickedness] Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods. - [Idolatry] Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for. - [Prayer] See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. - [Courtship] Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through. - [Sincerity] Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around. - [Pride] 'Tis good nature only wins the heart It moulds the body to an easy grace And brightens every feature of the face; It smoothes th' unpolish'd tongue with eloquence And adds persuasion to the finest sense. - [Good Nature] Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue. - Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History (p. 127) [Creation]
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