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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. (Joseph Addison)
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. View quote
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. View quote
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. View quote
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind. View quote
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What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected. View quote
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Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast, And those who paint them truest praise them most. View quote
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I would... earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage. View quote
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life With dignity and grace, the best of circumstances. (Joseph Addison)
To my confusion, and eternal grief, I must approve the sentence that destroys me. View quote
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Sir Roger made several reflections on the greatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that the Thames was the noblest river in Europe...with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman. View quote
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The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has severest virtue for its basis, And such a friendship ends not but with life. View quote
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Ambition raises a secret tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought. View quote
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The fraternity of the henpecked. View quote
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Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. View quote
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Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. View quote
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Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. View quote
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These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world. View quote
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. (Joseph Addison)
See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. View quote
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The woman that deliberates is lost. View quote
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. View quote
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. View quote
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