Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
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A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.Augustus Hare
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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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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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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