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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Joseph Addison

A 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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Doctors Humanity Kill Man Men Poor Ruffian Wealthy
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.
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Divine Even Foresight Secret Step Trace Transition Unable
That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Action Aid Imitate Meet Sport Strength
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Bondage Day Eternity Hour Liberty Virtue
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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Assault Character Dream Good Habit Impregnable Iron
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
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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Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Freedom Hand July Own Perish
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Beget Cheerfulness Get Health Inspirational Well Yoga
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Along Flower Friendship Inspirational Life Pathway Scarred Smile Sunshine Sure
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Exert Force Full Giving Nature Play Temperance Vigor
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Confirm Generation Lie Lying Narrow Particular Son Wisdom
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Dull Next People Serious Step Stupid
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Become Blacken Cuttlefish Disputant Himself Invisible Mind Unable Water
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ensure Expose Flatter Flattery Hand Liable Men Other

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