The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; / The charitie…

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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; / The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, / Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.

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Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 23156. Printed attribution: Wordsworth. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 27709. Printed attribution: Emerson. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 25142. Printed attribution: Bible. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105

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A broken leg is not healed by a silk stocking.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 167. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_167

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