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 ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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