Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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