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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."

"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."

"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."

"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."
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