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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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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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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 hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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 are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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