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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer's minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
That discipline which corrects the baseness of worldly passion, fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes it with enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity, than all the provision we can make of the goods of fortune.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The slave who digs in the mine or labors at the oar can rejoice at the prospect of laying down his burden together with his life; but to the slave of guilt there arises no hope from death. On the contrary, he is obliged to look forward with constant terror to this most certain of all events, as the conclusion of all his hopes, and the commencement of his greatest miseries.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
How shocking must thy summons be, O Death!
To him that is at ease in his possessions!
Who, counting on long years of pleasure here,
Is quite unfurnished for the world to come.
In that dread moment, how the frantic soul
Raves round the walls of her clay tenement;
Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help;
But shrieks in vain.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)