Quotes by John Pearson about Life

5 quotes by John Pearson about life

John Pearson British theologian

Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and...

Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living.

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They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

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Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

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We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

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What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man...

What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us.

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