A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
JOSEPH ADDISONThe transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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