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"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
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"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."
"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
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"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
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