Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
JOSEPH ADDISONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Soon 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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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