Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards
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- To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.
- Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
- Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
- Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
- We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.