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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Topic: Age
Source: None
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Topic: Brevity
Source: None
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Topic: Charity
Source: None
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Topic: Disease
Source: None
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.
Topic: Education
Source: Sermons, a manuscript
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There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious
faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If
not, have none of it.
Topic: Faith
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.
Topic: Fault
Source: None
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Topic: Habit
Source: None
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit.
Topic: Happiness
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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Hatred is self-punishment.
Topic: Hate
Source: None
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Hatred is self-punishment.
Topic: Hatred
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Topic: Hatred
Source: None
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Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant,
remains fruitless.
Topic: Idleness
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
Topic: Idleness
Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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Mystery and innocence are not akin.
Topic: Mystery
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Oppression
Source: None
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
Topic: Pretension
Source: None
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God's glowing covenant.
Topic: Rainbows
Source: MS. Sermons
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal
traits in the author.
Topic: Style
Source: Manuscript Sermons
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Topic: Suspicion
Source: None
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As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with
you a point of honor.
Topic: Unkindness
Source: Manuscript Sermons
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My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare,
But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.
Topic: Unkindness
Source: Manuscript Sermons
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Topic: Vice
Source: None
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Topic: Zeal
Source: None
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