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Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.

— Hannah More

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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Most of the Beatitudes which the Infinite Compassion pronounced have the sorrows of earth for their subject, but the joys of earth for their completion.

In men this blunder still you find,—
All think their little set mankind.

Small habits well pursued betimes
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