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The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore.
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)
The heart can put on charms which no beauty of known things, nor imagination of the unknown, can aspire to emulate. Virtue shines in native colors, purer and brighter than pearl, or diamond, or prism, can reflect.
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)
Whether a young man shall reap pleasure or pain from winning the objects of his choice, depends, not only upon his wisdom or folly in selecting those objects, but upon the right or wrong methods by which he pursues them.
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)