The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
JOSEPH ADDISONWe are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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There 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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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