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.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhether 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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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