What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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