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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Abraham Tucker

This discovers to us the expedient of a steadiness and consistency of conduct, and renders the having willed a thing a motive with us to will it still, until some cogent reason shall occur to the contrary.

Nor is the lowest herd incapable of that sincerest of pleasures, the consciousness of acting right; for rectitude does not consist in extensiveness of knowledge, but in doing the best according to the lights afforded.

There are various degrees of strength in judgments, from the lowest surmise, to notion, opinion, persuasion, and the highest assurance, which we call certainty.

When the purpose we aim at does not ensue upon our first endeavours, the mind redoubles her efforts, under an apprehension that a stronger exertion may succeed where a weaker did not.

The moralist, though he always prefers substantials before forms, yet, where the latter affect the former, he will stickle as earnestly for them.

The land of philosophy contains partly an open, champaign country, passable by every common understanding, and partly a range of woods, traversable only by the speculative.