The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
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As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.
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