A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONA wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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