There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISON
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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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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