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" A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. "
Evil
Looking
Man
" A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions. "
Great
World
Support
" A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them. "
Hold
Follow
Public Opinion
" As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. "
Pure
Things
Even
" Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. "
Always
Us
Too Much
" Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. "
Vain
Will
Things
" Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. "
Boy
Happy
Enough
" It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of. "
Evil
Loss
Good
" It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. "
Us
Life
Own
" It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet. "
Bright
Sweet
Flowers
" Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? "
God
Loved
Men
" Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. "
Many
Being
Grand
" Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming. "
Nothing
Black
Cloud
" Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. "
Nothing
Earth
Heaven
" Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. "
Action
Consequences
Voice
" Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. "
Think
Bad
Good
" Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. "
People
Together
Working Together
" The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. "
Glass
Heaven
Intelligence
" The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. "
Character
Faith
Power
" There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. "
Mind
Wings
Proof
" The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience. "
Paganism
Virtue
Strength
" Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. "
Knowledge
Sail
Wind
" To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. "
Home
Paradise
Adam
" What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. "
Character
Person
Own
" What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. "
Words
Proud
Talk
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