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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Joseph Addison

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Doe Nature Nothing Purpose Uselessly
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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Conversation Friend Men Often Private Talk Thinking Weakest Wise
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Blow Compassion Edge Form Mind Passion Temper Tenderness Women
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Age Birthday Giving Men Old Show Young
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Country Latin Meet Met Old Passage Upon Wonderfully
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
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Honesty Humanity Innumerable Integrity Man Nature Pain Sorrow Subject
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Circumstance Enemies Goal Innovation Men Naturally
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Beget Cheerfulness Get Health Inspirational Well Yoga
it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Birth Evening Listen Listening Moon Repeat Shade Stories Take Tale Wondrous
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Endeavor Morality Temper Wit
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Funny Know Money People Primitive Work
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Description Force Give Giving Idea Ideas Lively Sight Themselves
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Hour Idea Lengthened Men Wise

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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