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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Joseph Addison

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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Appear Eye Inconsistency Little Man Real World
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Hunting Man Proper Thinking Unemployment
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Expression Mind Most Noble Significance Silence Sometimes Sublime
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Freedom Hand July Own Perish
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Admire Discover Familiar Fresh Grow Immediately Life Object Passion Respect Upon
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Description Force Give Giving Idea Ideas Lively Sight Themselves
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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Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Different Language Only Piece Translate Trying
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Attire Consult Excellence People Plainness Writing
According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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According Contradictory Definition Error Falsehood Nature
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Complain Excellence Imperfect Inspiring Perfect
Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Disquietude End Evil Fear Life Men Sorrow Summed
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Believe Own Side Stupid Uncharitable War
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Beget Cheerfulness Get Health Inspirational Well Yoga
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Doe Nature Nothing Purpose Uselessly

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