A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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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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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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