According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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