Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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