Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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