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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Animal Blackbird Frankly Fruit Garden Song Value
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Every Life Love Pulse Soul Vein
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Applause Down Greatness Look Multitude Neglect Soul
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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Assault Character Dream Good Habit Impregnable Iron
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Content Good Obscurely Thyself
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Christian Dominion Gratifying Men Mind Nothing Power
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
I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Astonishment Competition Debate FAction Mankind Reflect Sorrow
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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Apprehension Beloved Jealousy Love Men Pain
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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Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Divine Even Foresight Secret Step Trace Transition Unable
A 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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Arise Bless Blessing Contented Enjoy Great Happiness Men Mind Present Subduing
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Discover Enjoy Friend Friendship Highest Real Secret
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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Beautiful Epitaph Grief Hear Incardinate King Meet Parent Tombstone Upon
Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Become Blacken Cuttlefish Disputant Himself Invisible Mind Unable Water
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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Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World

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