“ Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. ”
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“ Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. ”
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“ Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. ”
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“ Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. ”
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“ Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. ”
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“ Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. ”
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“ The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. ”
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“ Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. ”
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“ God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. ”
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“ Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ”
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“ Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. ”
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“ Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. ”
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“ Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ”
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“ Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. ”
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“ Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ”
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“ Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. ”
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“ Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence. ”
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“ Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety. ”
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“ Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. ”
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“ Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ”
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“ All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ”
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“ Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety. ”
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“ Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. ”
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“ Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. ”
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“ Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety. ”
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“ Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. ”
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“ Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach. ”
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“ Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. ”
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“ If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. ”
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