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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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