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    Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

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    A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

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    A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

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    A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

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    Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

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    Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

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    After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

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    All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

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    Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

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    Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

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    Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

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    A small unkindness is a great offence.

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    A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

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    Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

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    Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

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    Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

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    eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

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    Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

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    Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

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    Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

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    Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

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    He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.

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    he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

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    He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

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    How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.

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    I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.

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    Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

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    If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

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    If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

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    If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

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    If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

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    In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

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    Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

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    In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

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    In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

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    ... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

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    It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.

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    It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

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    It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

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    It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

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    it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

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    it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.

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    I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.

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    Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

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    Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

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    Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

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    Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

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    Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

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    My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

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    My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.