Rationalist versus Puritans

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

Is it not an unreasonable speech for a man at midnight to say, It will never be day? It is as unreasonable for a man in trouble to say, O Lord, I shall never get free; it will be always thus!

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only. — Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard

"We must be born again. We must have new hearts". "God hath in this matter no other rival than this world. It is its friendship that is enmity to him"

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

Rationalist

Riches are . . . long in getting—with much pains, hard in keeping—with much care, quick in losing—with more sorrow. (Thomas Fuller)

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. (Richard Sibbes)

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most—who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and str

Isaac Ambrose

"Caution in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient."G.C. Lichtenberg (1742-179

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

"If I am a fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of self-approved wisdom." Lord Byron (1788-1824)

The angles of a triangle equal two right angles.

"I can see no evidence of beneficient design, or indeed design of any kind, in the details" Charles Darwin

When we are most lazy—the devil is most busy. Sloth is the cause of sin, and idleness the fruitful mother of wickedness. (Andrew Gray)

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

Plotinus

There is a great deal of difference between falling into a temptation, and running into a temptation. The falling into a temptation shall work for good, not the running into it. He that falls into a river is capable of help and pity, but he

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. — Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Down from his bridge the river captain cries To fire again. They make the cannon sound; But none of them would wish the murder found, Nor wish in other manner to atone Than booming at their midnight crime, which lies Rotting the river, weig

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,

To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,