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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.Joseph Addison
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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The post of honour is a private station.
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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculation.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex.
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