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
JOSEPH ADDISONMisery 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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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