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This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. (Daniel Defoe)
A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. View quote
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Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have. View quote
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He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions. View quote
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Pride the first peer and president of hell. View quote
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How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into. View quote
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... thirteen times I have been rich and poor. View quote
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The royal refugee our breed restores With foreign courtiers and with foreign whores, And carefully repeopled us again, Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign. View quote
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There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they are set a-going by some object in view, or, though not in view, yet rendered present to the mind by the power of imagination, that motion carries out the soul, by its impetuosity, to such violent, eager embracings of the object, that the absence of it is insupportable. View quote
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