What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
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