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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Against Criticism Defense Except Funny Humor Obscurity
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Fetch Incongruity Out Wit
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Education Inspiring Marble Motivational Scripture
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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Country Latin Meet Met Old Passage Upon Wonderfully
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Beauty Directly Inspirational More Soul
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Elation Heart Luxury Men Pride
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
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Godlike Justice Truly Virtue
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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Arise Conversation Enjoyment Friendship Happiness One Self Talking
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
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Absurd Attention Men Over Part Pass
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
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Happy Idol Idols Literature More Supernatural Unhappy
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Always Evil Great Ignorance Misery Yield
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ensure Expose Flatter Flattery Hand Liable Men Other

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