Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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