Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONI reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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