The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

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The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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