There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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