When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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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.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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