There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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