As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt, be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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