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But it must be remembered that such sentiments, from their very universality and evident laudableness, need correctives, for they bear in themselves a great danger of excess or of precipitancy.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

The antithesis is not a good one, between the difficulty of Jeanie's 'personal exertions' and the laudableness of the motive which led to them.

From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison