Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISONOn you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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