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While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine…
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I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward…
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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter,…
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Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of…
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There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names.…
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To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.
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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to…
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If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions…
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint…
— Robert Burns
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
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Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to…
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character,…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
— Thomas Huxley
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