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Names govern the world.
Sow an action, reap a habit.
A small unkindness is a great offence.
The soul on earth is an immortal guest.
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!
The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.
All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.
There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.
It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.