When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories