Conscience First Quotes by Robert Hall

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Robert Hall has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
• Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
• Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity…
• We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
• We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
• A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once…
• Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask…
• In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

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