National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.
Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.
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