The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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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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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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