There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONThat 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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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