Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON
There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Our 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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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