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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an in...  
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.  
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.  
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.  
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within...  
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.  
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.  
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.  
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.  
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being in...  
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.  
Never be so brief as to become obscure.  
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the ...  
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his ...  
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godl...  
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterf...  
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than j...  
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.  
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the onl...  
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any oth...  
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is ta...  
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.  
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of vi...