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A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Rage is mental imbecility.
Hatred is self-punishment.
The law of heaven is love.
The eye is inlet to the soul.
Self-respect is the best of all.
Obedience sums up our entire duty.
Mystery and innocence are not akin.
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
Prosperity often presages adversity.
Error is always more busy than truth.
True repentance also involves reform.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
True repentance always involves reform.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.
Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.
There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
