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 ADDISONWhat 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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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