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" Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. "

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Living

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" Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. "

" To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. "

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" One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. "

" The busier we are the more leisure we have. "

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" We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. "

" There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice. "

" Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. "

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" To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. "

" We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. "

" It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. "

" Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. "

" A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. "

" No young man ever thinks he shall die. "

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Die

Man

" I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. "

" Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. "

" Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. "

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Want

Humanity

" Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. "

" There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. "

" Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. "

" The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. "

" Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. "

" The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. "

" Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. "

" Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. "

" A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. "

" As is our confidence, so is our capacity. "

" He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. "

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Himself

Who

" The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. "

" The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. "

William Hazlitt

Finger

Our