Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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