The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
PlutarchThe obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.
PlutarchIt is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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