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Sydney Smith

"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due."

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"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due."

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Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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Donna Grant

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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Donna Grant

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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Donna Grant

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."
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"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
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"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
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"Live always in the best company when you read."
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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."
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"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
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"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
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"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."
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