Encourage innocent amusement.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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 good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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