The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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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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