The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.
Hannah MoreThere is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
Hannah MoreAfter all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.
Hannah MoreImagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
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