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.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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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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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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