If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

These evils I deserve, and more
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Justly, yet despair not of his final read more

These evils I deserve, and more
. . . .
Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,
Whose ear is ever open, and his eye
Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile

True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may well be read more

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever read more

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

But above all things truth is victor.

But above all things truth is victor.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
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Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is
humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
[Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum
Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]