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“I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.”

— Samuel Johnson

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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any thing.

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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

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The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.

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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, part of the chosen trappings of folly! the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.

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He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

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