They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for 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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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