When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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 greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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 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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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