Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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Happiness is like manna it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep it cannot be accumulated nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door
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