According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
JOSEPH ADDISONWere a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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