What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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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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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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