There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONMusic, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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