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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Joseph Addison

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Other Passion Pleasing Single Solitude Tormented
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Below Good Greatest Heaven Mortal Music Wisdom
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Freedom Hand July Own Perish
Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Agreeable Describe Each Follow Give Grace Light Organ Set Side Surround
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.
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Disappointment Happiness Losses Pain Patience
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Expression Mind Most Noble Significance Silence Sometimes Sublime
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Confirm Generation Lie Lying Narrow Particular Son Wisdom
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Christian Dominion Gratifying Men Mind Nothing Power
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Exert Force Full Giving Nature Play Temperance Vigor
Whether 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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Appear Attend Began Diligently Down Face Forget Happen Lomg Person Seldom
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World
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
Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Jester Literature Prophet Prove
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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Along Flower Friendship Inspirational Life Pathway Scarred Smile Sunshine Sure
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
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

Difference Good Greatest Men Mind Music Open Vanity Wise

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