Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
Hugh Blair
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
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exercise improvement source
Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer's minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural.
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Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame.
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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
man
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
temper religion
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
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Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.
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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
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