Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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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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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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