Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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In 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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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