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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
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Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.
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Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
O here will I set of my everlasting rest and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world wearied flesh eyes look your last arms take your last embrace and lips all you the doors of breath seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death.
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
It ought not to be the leading object of any one to become an eminent metaphysician, mathematician, or poet, but to render himself happy as an individual, and an agreeable, a respectable, and a useful member of society.
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
Conscience | Cunning | Defeat | Devil | Father | Force | Gall | Heart | Heaven | Life | Life | Murder | Oppression | Passion | Play | Power | Property | Revenge | Soul | Spirit | Tears | Weakness | Will | Words | Murder | Guilty |
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.
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