“In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 117.

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English clergyman 1613–1667

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