An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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