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"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."
"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
"For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good."
"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
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"If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!"
"Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;. Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought."
"Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground."
"Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found."
"I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not."
"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."
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