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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.

Joseph Addison

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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Labor Noble Nothing Pain Purchase Real True Valuable
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Endeavor Morality Temper Wit
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Always Evil Great Ignorance Misery Yield
That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Action Aid Imitate Meet Sport Strength
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Confederacy Friendship League Pleasure Vice
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Aloud Best Friend Friendship Thinking
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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Disappointment Happiness Losses Pain Patience
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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Application Art Bestow Delight Exercise Science Study Upon
We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Dull Next People Serious Step Stupid
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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Animal Capable Compassion Creature Distress Philanthropy Sympathize
Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Disquietude End Evil Fear Life Men Sorrow Summed
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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Expression Mind Most Noble Significance Silence Sometimes Sublime
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Elation Heart Luxury Men Pride
it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Godlike Justice Truly Virtue
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Age Birthday Giving Men Old Show Young

I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.

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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.

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