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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.

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

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

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

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

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

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

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

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

The uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ...

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

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.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

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

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

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

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

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

We live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

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

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

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.

Quietness is my definition of happiness.

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

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

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

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

If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him or her the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. ... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

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

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

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

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

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Love never reasons but profusely gives ... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

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

It's cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit.

Sow an action, reap a habit.

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

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

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

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

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

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

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

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.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

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

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

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

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

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

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 ...

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates.

Names govern the world.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest.