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Joseph Addison

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
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Anxiety Fate Fear Judgment Lord Waiting
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Change Fool Funny Inspirational Men Nature Ride
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
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Discretion Man Mind Quality Shining Useful
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Country Latin Meet Met Old Passage Upon Wonderfully
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
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Aloud Best Friend Friendship Thinking
Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Agreeable Describe Each Follow Give Grace Light Organ Set Side Surround
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Other Passion Pleasing Single Solitude Tormented
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Essential Hope Inspirational Life Love Something
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Confirm Generation Lie Lying Narrow Particular Son Wisdom
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Action Evil Intention Make Prevent Sin
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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Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
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
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Away Clear Friday Life Rust Sunday Week

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