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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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