The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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