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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Joseph Addison

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Command Deserve Merit Sempronius Success
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Away Clear Friday Life Rust Sunday Week
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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Expression Mind Most Noble Significance Silence Sometimes Sublime
Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Disquietude End Evil Fear Life Men Sorrow Summed
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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God Lost Mercy Rise Soul Transported View Wonder
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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Ambitious Kind Literature None Writing
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Charity Hand Heart Virtue
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
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Honesty Humanity Innumerable Integrity Man Nature Pain Sorrow Subject
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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Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Creature Distinguish Laughter Men Mirth Other
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World
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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Act Create Dream Hope Life Possess Really Shadow
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Funny Know Money People Primitive Work
Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Honor Inexperience Men Mischief Real

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