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A house without family worship has neither foundation nor covering. - [Religion] As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. - [Time] Christian graces are like perfumes; the more they are pressed, the sweeter they smell; like stars that shine brightest in the dark; like trees, the more they are shaken, the deeper root they take, and the more fruit they bear. - [Christianity] Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. - [Judgment] O credulity, Security's blind nurse, the dream of fools, The drunkard's ape, that feeling for his way Ev'n when he thinks, in his deluded sense To snatch at safety, falls without defence. - [Credulity] Our conscience is a fire within us, and our sins as the fuel; instead of warming, it will scorch us, unless the fuel be removed, or the heat of it allayed by penitential tears. - [Conscience] Time's gradual touch has mouldered into beauty many a tower, which when it frowned with all its battlements was only terrible. - [Antiquity] 'Tis ever thus With noble minds, if chance they slide to folly; Remorse stings deeper, and relentless conscience Pours more gall into the bitter cup Of their severe repentance. - [Conscience] Uncursed ambition, unresisting sloth, And base dependence, are the fiends accurst. - [Ambition]
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