"But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes."
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"A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul."
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"It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure."
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"It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water."
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"Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give."
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"He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love."
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"Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities."
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"Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight."
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"Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature."
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"Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them."
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"When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge."
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"Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation."
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"Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew."
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"Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse."
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"Satirists do expose their own ill nature."
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"As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food."
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"The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices."
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"Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream."
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"Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness."
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"Sweet is the day of sacred rest; No mortal cares shall seize my breast; O may my heart in tune be found Like David's harp of solemn sound."
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