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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.

Joseph Addison

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Beauty Directly Inspirational More Soul
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Endeavor Morality Temper Wit
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Godlike Justice Truly Virtue
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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 are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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