The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

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Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

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