Date: Wednesday, September 5, 1711
"When Ambition pulls one Way, Interest another, Inclination a third, and perhaps Reason contrary to all, a Man is likely to pass his Time but ill who has so many different Parties to please."
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Date: Wednesday, September 5, 1711
"When the Mind hovers among such a Variety of Allurements, one had better settle on a Way of Life that is not the very best we might have chosen, than grow old without determining our Choice, and go out of the World as the greatest Part of Mankind do, before we have resolved how to live in it."
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Date: Wednesday, September 5, 1711
"There is scarce a State of Life, or Stage in it which does not produce Changes and Revolutions in the Mind of Man."
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