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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Joseph Addison

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Another Appreciation Burden Someone Thank You Volunteer World
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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Apprehension Beloved Jealousy Love Men Pain
A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Doctors Humanity Kill Man Men Poor Ruffian Wealthy
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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Atom Impressed Miracle Nature Quality Stand Wonder
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Hunting Man Proper Thinking Unemployment
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Fetch Incongruity Out Wit
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
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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Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Hour Idea Lengthened Men Wise
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Happy Idol Idols Literature More Supernatural Unhappy
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Animal Blackbird Frankly Fruit Garden Song Value
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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Admire Discover Familiar Fresh Grow Immediately Life Object Passion Respect Upon
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
Jesters do often prove prophets.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Consider Deposed Dispute Divide Follow King Quickly
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

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