When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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There 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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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 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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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