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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. (Hannah More)
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. View quote
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. View quote
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To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! View quote
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In men this blunder still you find,- All think their little set mankind. View quote
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The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes! View quote
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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. View quote
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. View quote
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems. View quote
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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! View quote
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. (Hannah More)
... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. View quote
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That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it. View quote
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. View quote
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. View quote
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It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn. View quote
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. View quote
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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. View quote
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