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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Consider Deposed Dispute Divide Follow King Quickly
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Body Cheerfulness Friendly Happiness Health Inspiration Mind Promoter
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Confirm Generation Lie Lying Narrow Particular Son Wisdom
Encourage innocent amusement.
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Amusement Encourage Innocent
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Doe Nature Nothing Purpose Uselessly
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Conversation Friend Men Often Private Talk Thinking Weakest Wise
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Advance Anger Little Love More Moving Pride Side Visibly
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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Believe Own Side Stupid Uncharitable War
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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Ensure Expose Flatter Flattery Hand Liable Men Other
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Always Coxcomb Drama Fool Make Men Natural Own Sometimes
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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Advantageously Class Come Employ Long Maturity Really Women

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