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.
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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