There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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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.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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