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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. - [Applause] A small unkindness is a great offence. - [Kindness] Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. - [Affliction] Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. - [Affliction] But since, howe'er protracted, death will come, Why fondly study, with ingenious pains, To put it off?--To breathe a little longer Is to defer our fate, but not to shun it. - [Death] Christianity bears all the marks of a divine original; it came down from heaven, and its gracious purpose is to carry us up thither. Its author is God; it was foretold from the beginning, by prophecies, which grew clearer and brighter as they approached the period of their accomplishment. It was confirmed by miracles, which continued until the religion they illustrated was established. It was ratified by the blood of its author; its doctrines are pure, sublime, consistent; its precepts just and holy; its worship is spiritual; its service reasonable and rendered practicable by the offers of divine aid to human weakness. It is sanctioned by the promise of eternal happiness to the faithful, and the threat of everlasting misery to the disobedient. - [Christianity] Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. - [Genius] Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity. - [Gentleness] Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make. - [Glory] Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. - [Opera] Half our misery from our foibles springs. - [Misery] How goodness heightens beauty! - [Beauty : Goodness] If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has. - [Display] Love never reasons, but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. - [Love] Method is the hinge of business, and there is no method without order and punctuality. - [Method] My soul, o'erfraught with gratitude, rejects the aid of language. Lord, behold my heart. - [Gratitude] Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. - [Blessings] O, unhappy state of kings! it is well the robe of majesty is gay, or who would put it on? - [Kings] Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely. - [Youth] Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good. - [Heaven] Perish discretion when it interferes with duty. - [Discretion] Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. - [Economy] Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. - [Despair] So weak is man, so ignorant and blind, that did not God sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, we should be ruined at our own request. - [Man] Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them. - [Economy] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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