A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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 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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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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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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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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