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'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Our Mother feedeth thus our little life, That we may in turn feed her with our death

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.