12 Quotes by David Mallet


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    Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

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    Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

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    A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

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    I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

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    O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

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