An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe 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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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I 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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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