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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. The friendship that can cease has never been real. It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source. It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing. The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?' No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. The scars of others should teach us caution. When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. Small minds can never handle great themes. Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once woll has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? The tired ox treads with a firmer step. Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts. For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense. It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin. The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves. Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. Privilegia paucorum non faciunt legem. Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.st. jerome
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