"There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty."
-Joseph Addison
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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
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"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
-Joseph Addison
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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."
-Joseph Addison
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"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
-Joseph Addison
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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
-Joseph Addison
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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."
-Joseph Addison
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
-Pearl S. Buck
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
-Miguel de Unamuno
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
-H. L. Mencken
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
-Albert Schweitzer
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