One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISONYoung men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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