A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
JOSEPH ADDISONAdmiration 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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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