For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it, it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons fools and idiots, especially during youth.

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The more one judges the less one loves.

The more one judges the less one loves.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night, or the last to awake in the morning.

Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

    Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed

    Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

    Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.

    Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.

    It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

    It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

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