I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
JOSEPH ADDISONWords, 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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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