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.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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