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.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan 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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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