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01In print by 1896 AD

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to Him who made us, and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and the duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

Blair (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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02In print by 1896 AD

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.

Pliny (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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03In print by 1896 AD

A foe to God was never true friend to man.

Young (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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04In print by 1896 AD

The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

Channing (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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05In print by 1896 AD

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives him for mankind.

Phillips Brooks (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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06In print by 1896 AD

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Beecher (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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07In print by 1896 AD

You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor never was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud. In a word, ingratitude is too base to return a kindness, too proud to regard it, much like the tops of mountains, barren indeed, but yet lofty; they produce nothing; they feed nobody; they clothe nobody; yet are high and stately, and look down upon all the world.

South (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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08In print by 1896 AD

The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.

Victor Hugo (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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09In print by 1896 AD

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

Hosea Ballou (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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10In print by 1896 AD

To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Locke (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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11In print by 1896 AD

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.

Henry Giles (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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12In print by 1896 AD

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

Lavater (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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13In print by 1896 AD

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

Fénelon (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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14In print by 1896 AD

Poetry is the robe, the royal apparel, in which truth asserts its divine origin.

Beecher (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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15In print by 1896 AD

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

Beecher (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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16In print by 1896 AD

That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little.

Channing (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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17In print by 1896 AD

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vainglory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.

Massillon (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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18In print by 1896 AD

The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal.

Chatfield (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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19In print by 1896 AD

Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

Horace Mann (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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20In print by 1896 AD

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Hosea Ballou (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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21In print by 1896 AD

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Hosea Ballou (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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22In print by 1896 AD

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Hosea Ballou (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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23In print by 1896 AD

I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

Holmes (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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24In print by 1896 AD

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Whately (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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