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For if a young lady has that discretion and modesty, without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more, than on displaying what she has.

— 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
May reach the dignity of crimes.

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