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Precepts of morality, besides the natural corruption of our tempers which makes us averse to them, are so abstracted from ideas of sense that they seldom get an opportunity for descriptions and images.: Joseph Addison

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.: Francis Atterbury

In moral reflections there must be heat, as well as dry reason, to inspire this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us.: Thomas Burnet

By the very constitution of our nature, moral evil is its own cure.: Dr. Thomas Chalmers

To take away rewards and punishments is only pleasing to a man who resolves not to live morally.: John Dryden

A moral agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.: Jonathan Edwards

What can laws do without morals?: Benjamin Franklin

The moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.: James A. Froude

Our stage-play has a moral—and, no doubt, You all have sense enough to find it out.: John Gay

The moral goodness and congruity, or evilness, unfitness, and unseasonableness, of moral and natural action, falls not within the verge of a brutal faculty.: Sir Matthew Hale

The oracle was enforced to proclaim Socrates to be the wisest man in the world; because he applied his studies to the moral part, the squaring men’s lives.: Henry Hammond

Of those things which are for direction of all the parts of our life needful, and not impossible to be discerned by the light of nature itself, are there not many which few men’s natural capacity hath been able to find out?: Richard Hooker

In moral actions divine law helpeth exceedingly the law of reason to guide life, but in supernatural it alone guideth.: Richard Hooker

I am apt to suspect … that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions.: David Hume

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale.: Dr. Johnson

Where there is a moral right on the one hand, no secondary right can discharge it.: Roger L’Estrange

The true ground of morality can only be the will and law of a God who sees men in the dark, has in his hands rewards and punishments, and power enough to call to account the proudest offender.: John Locke

Moral principles require reasoning and discourse to discover the certainty of their truths: they lie not open as natural characters engraven on the mind.: John Locke

I cannot see how any men should ever transgress those moral rules with confidence and serenity.: John Locke

The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle by virtue of which it is in the agent’s power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not perform it.: Robert South

It holds in all operative principles whatsoever, but especially in such as relate to morality; in which not to proceed is certainly to go backward.: Robert South

Good and evil in morality, as the east and west are in the frame of the world, founded in and divided by that unalterable situation which they have respectively in the whole body of the universe.: Robert South

Envy, malice, covetousness, and revenge are abolished: a new race of virtues and graces, more divine, more moral, more humane, are planted in their stead.: Thomas Sprat

To Mr. Locke the writings of Hobbes suggested much of the sophistry displayed in the first book of his essay on the factitious nature of our moral principles.: Dugald Stewart

It is found by experience, those men who set up for morality without regard to religion are generally but virtuous in part.: Jonathan Swift

The system of morality to be gathered from the … ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.: Jonathan Swift

What is called by the Stoics apathy, or dispassion, is called by the Sceptics indisturbance, by the Molinists quietism, by common men peace of conscience.: Sir William Temple

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

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