It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
タグ: say, born, understand, life

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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
タグ: virtue, obedience, strength
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
タグ: even, all-things, pure, things
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
タグ: talk, proud, words, humble
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
タグ: bad, think, men, good
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
タグ: children, world, mother, great
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