Amiability

(418 votes)   How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Anne Sophie Swetchine
1782-1857, Russian Author

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(406 votes)   Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(420 votes)   When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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