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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Joseph Addison

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Blow Compassion Edge Form Mind Passion Temper Tenderness Women
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Hour Idea Lengthened Men Wise
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Bravery Courage Go Thing
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Expression Mind Most Noble Significance Silence Sometimes Sublime
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Christian Dominion Gratifying Men Mind Nothing Power
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Creature Distinguish Laughter Men Mirth Other
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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Agree Angry Feeling Happiness Happy Inspirational Uncharitableness
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ensure Expose Flatter Flattery Hand Liable Men Other
Man 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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Honesty Humanity Innumerable Integrity Man Nature Pain Sorrow Subject
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Beautiful Epitaph Grief Hear Incardinate King Meet Parent Tombstone Upon
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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Evil Future Men Moment Present Secret
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Arise Conversation Enjoyment Friendship Happiness One Self Talking
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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Beauty Discover Impression Mastery Men Reading Stroke Stronger Writing
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Antidote Dotes People Stupid Take
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

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