Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONAnimals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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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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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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