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Prosperity often presages adversity. - [Prosperity] Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. - [Prosperity] Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. - [Purity] Rage is mental imbecility. - [Rage] Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone. - [Slander] Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence. - [Reproach] Self-respect is the best of all. - [Respect] Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. - [Servility] Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts. - [Preaching] Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. - [Suspicion] Tears of joy, like summer raindrops, are pierced by sunbeams. - [Tears] That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. - [Refinement] That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object. - [Punishment] The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. - [Worship] The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. - [Tears] The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer-bought. - [Experience] The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. - [Eyes] The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. - [Punishment] The greatest truths are the simplest. - [Simplicity : Truth] The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. - [Instruction] The illumined record of celestial truth. - [Scripture] The law of heaven is love. - [Love] The only infallible judge. - [Conscience] The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important. - [Oppression] The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it. - [Reproof] Displaying page 4 of 6 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6
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