When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading 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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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