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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.

Joseph Addison

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Beget Cheerfulness Get Health Inspirational Well Yoga
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Above Another Essential Knowledge Man Men Next Raise
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Content Good Obscurely Thyself
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Bosom Friend Guardian Angel Make Perseverance Preserving Success
Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Drinking Enemy Form Glasses Prescribe Quote Say
The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Different Language Only Piece Translate Trying
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
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Labor Noble Nothing Pain Purchase Real True Valuable
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Form Hypocrisy Knowledge Learning Pedant Power
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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Advantageously Class Come Employ Long Maturity Really Women
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
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Attire Consult Excellence People Plainness Writing
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Friendship Greatest Human Life Real Sweetener
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Admire Discover Familiar Fresh Grow Immediately Life Object Passion Respect Upon
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Favor Important Industry Ingenuity Mankind Purchaser

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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