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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.


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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.



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It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.



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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.



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Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.



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Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.



Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.



Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.



To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.



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