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Roger L'Estrange quotes: Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Wickedness may prosper for a while.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Roger L'Estrange quotes: He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.