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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our…
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child…
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet,…
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing,…
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
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Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason…
— William Hazlitt
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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for…
— Benjamin Rush
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If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in…
— John Ruskin
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Remember your natural affection for all of creation.
— Rob Brezsny
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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for…
— Benjamin Rush
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There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led…
— C.S. Lewis
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Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection…
— Willard Scott
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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to…
— Bible
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For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers,…
— Bible
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