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.
JOSEPH ADDISONKnowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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 no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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That 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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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