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Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

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There is a transcendent power in example.

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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

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