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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness…
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to…
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to…
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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill…
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must…
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known,…
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able…
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and…
— Lord Chesterfield
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second…
— Samuel Johnson
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success…
— Samuel J. Tilden
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of…
— Gautama Buddha
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When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
— Publilius Syrus
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No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background…
— Alan Redpath
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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
— Denis Diderot
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