There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to … - Samuel Richardson

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Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.

Samuel Richardson

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Pride, Men, Self, Make, Human

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The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Betrayed, Choices, False, Husband, Inconsiderate, Rakes

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

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We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Temptation, Goodness, Be Good, Contrary, Good

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The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

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We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

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