Date: September 15, 1713
"These are generally persons who, in Shakespear's phrase, are worn and hackney'd in the Ways of Men; whose imaginations are grown Callous, and have lost all those delicate Sentiments which are natural to Minds that are innocent and undepraved."
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Date: August 15, 1713
"A Good Conscience is to the Soul what Health is to the Body; It preserves a constant Ease and Serenity within us, and more than countervails all the Calamities and Afflictions which can possibly befall us."
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Date: 1713
"My Heart is wounded, when I see such Virtue / Afflicted by the Weight of such Misfortunes."
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