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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.
Topic: Conceit
Source: Florio (pt. I)
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No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who courts the flattery.
Topic: Flattery
Source: Daniel
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Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.
Topic: Habit
Source: Florio (pt. I)
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Sow an action, reap a habit.
Topic: Habit
Source: Florio (pt. I)
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O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue
Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness,
And drinks my spirit up!
Topic: Jealousy
Source: David and Goliath (pt. V)
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Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
Topic: Luxury
Source: Belshazzar
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Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart,
enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
Topic: Luxury
Source: Essays--Dissipation
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its
necessities.
Topic: Luxury
Source: Essays--Dissipation
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Topic: Obstacles
Source: None
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Topic: Opera
Source: None
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He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's graces
By plucking bon-mots from their places.
Topic: Plagiarism
Source: Florio, the Bas Blue
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Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Florio (pt. I)
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A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To bear the miseries of a people!
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!
Topic: Royalty
Source: Daniel (pt. VI)
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Topic: Sin
Source: None
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Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs;
Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,
And though but few can serve, yet all may please;
On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence,
A small unkindness is a great offence.
Topic: Unkindness
Source: Sensibility
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