There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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