Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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