Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONIn private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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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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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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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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