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“Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.”
“Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.”
“Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.”
“I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.”
“The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.”
“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.”
“As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.”
“To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.”
“A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.”
“He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?”
“The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.”
“Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.”
“Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.”