An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISONAmong all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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