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... conscience, are rather to be led than driven.—Those who marry where they do not love, will be likely to love where they do not many.—Fuller. Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking ...
... conscience, are rather to be led than driven.—Those who marry where they do not love, will be likely to love where they do not many.—Fuller. Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking ...
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... —Rochefoucauld. There is not a more repulsive spectacle than an old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.—Tholuck. Agitation. Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation Agitation.
... —Rochefoucauld. There is not a more repulsive spectacle than an old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.—Tholuck. Agitation. Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation Agitation.
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... conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself. —Seneca. It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.—Horace. The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows ...
... conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself. —Seneca. It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.—Horace. The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows ...
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... conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power; for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world. —S. Smiles. Never does a man portray his own character more vividly,
... conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power; for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world. —S. Smiles. Never does a man portray his own character more vividly,
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