The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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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
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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Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
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True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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