I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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One 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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