There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing 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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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