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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.

Joseph Addison

Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Appear Eye Inconsistency Little Man Real World
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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Animal Blackbird Frankly Fruit Garden Song Value
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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God Lost Mercy Rise Soul Transported View Wonder
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Christian Dominion Gratifying Men Mind Nothing Power
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Always Coxcomb Drama Fool Make Men Natural Own Sometimes
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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Bent Come Inclination Length Present Reason Regard Since Voice
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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Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Criticism Criticize Men Own Perform Ridiculous
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Animal Capable Compassion Creature Distress Philanthropy Sympathize
Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Dust Little Look Visible
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Creature Distinguish Laughter Men Mirth Other
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Apprehension Beloved Jealousy Love Men Pain
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Act Create Dream Hope Life Possess Really Shadow
A 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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Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Character Complaints Hard Honesty Luck Man Men Prudent Strictly Work
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Admire Discover Familiar Fresh Grow Immediately Life Object Passion Respect Upon

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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