Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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