A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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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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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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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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