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To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
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Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
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Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
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Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.
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Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.
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By indulging this fretful temper you alienate those on whose affection much of your comfort depends.
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The sublime rejects mean, low, or trivial expressions; but it is equally an enemy to such as are turgid.
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In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
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As if we did not suffer enough from the storms which beat upon us without, must we conspire also to harass one another?
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An honest man will never employ an equivocal expression; a confused man may often utter ambiguous ones without any design.
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We have deprived ourselves of that liberty of transposition in the arrangement of words which the ancient languages enjoyed.
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It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.
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A good man acts with a vigour, and suffers with a patience, more than human, when he believes himself countenanced by the Almighty.
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As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.
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Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age; its first appearance is the fatal omen of growing depravity and future shame.
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Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness.
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Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of the busy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their main pursuit.
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Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.
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Though Milton is most distinguished for his sublimity, yet there is also much of the beautiful, the tender, and the pleasing in many parts of his work.
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Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others. It is just to say, as Dean Swift has done, that a man is too proud to be vain.
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Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
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Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer's minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural.
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We ought certainly to read blank verse so as to make every line sensible to the ear; at the same time, in doing so, every appearance of sing-song and tone must be carefully guarded against.
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I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
April 7, 1718
Died:
December 27, 1800
(aged 82)
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