When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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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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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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