There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan 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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Nothing 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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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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