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.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen 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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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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