“2057. Drive away and never endure Tale-bearers : Whoever entertains thee with the Faults of others, designs to serve thee in the same Kind.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes

(27th September 1823) Extracts from my Pocket Book. Song
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“True, thy fault is great,
But we are many that will plead for thee”
Sylphs
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Context: True, thy fault is great,
But we are many that will plead for thee;
We and our sisters, dwellers in the streams
That murmur blithely to the joyous mood,
And dolefully to sadness. Not a nook
In darkest woods but some of us are there,
To watch the flowers, that else would die unseen.

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I know my mighty sway —
I know my magic power
To drive thy griefs away”
Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee (May 1841)

“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is little fault!”
Canto III, lines 8–9 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

On a Dead Child http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2930.html, st. 1 (1890).
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De visione Dei (On The Vision of God) (1453)