Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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