There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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