Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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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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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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