Because Impudence Is A Vice, It Does

Ye Children Of Promise Who Are Awaiting Your Call To Glory, Take Possession Of The Inheritance That Now Is Yours. By Faith Take The Promises. Live Upon Them, Not Upon Emotions. Remember, Feeling Is Not Faith. Faith Grasps And Clings To The Promises. Faith Says, "i Am Certain, Not Because Feeling Testifies To It, But Because God Says It.

People Of Substance May Sin Without Being Exposed For Their Stolen Pleasure; But Servants And The Poorer Sort Of Women Have Seldom An Opportunity Of Concealing A Big Belly, Or At Least The Consequences Of It.

It Is Visible Then That It Was Not Any Heathen Religion Or Other Idolatrous Superstition, That First Put Man Upon Crossing His Appetites And Subduing His Dearest Inclinations, But The Skilful Management Of Wary Politicians; And The Nearer We Search Into Human Nature, The More We Shall Be Convinced, That The Moral Virtues Are The Political Offspring Which Flattery Begot Upon Pride.

I Don't Believe That There Is A Human Creature In His Senses, Arrived To Maturity, That At Some Time Or Other Has Not Been Carried Away By This Passion (sc. Envy) In Good Earnest; Yet I Never Met With Any One Who Dared Own He Was Guilty Of It But In Jest.

If Laying Aside All Worldly Greatness And Vain-glory, I Should Be Ask'd Where I Thought It Was Most Probable That Men Might Enjoy True Happiness, I Would Prefer A Small Peaceable Society, In Which Men, Neither Envy'd Nor Esteem'd By Neighbours, Should Be Contented To Live Upon The Natural Product Of The Spot They Inhabit, To A Vast Multitude Abounding In Wealth And Power, That Should Always Be Conquering Others By Their Arms Abroad, And Debauching Themselves By Foreign Luxury At Home.