A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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