Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
JOSEPH ADDISONI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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