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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

Joseph Addison

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
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Birth Evening Listen Listening Moon Repeat Shade Stories Take Tale Wondrous
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Content Good Obscurely Thyself
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Circumstance Enemies Goal Innovation Men Naturally
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Bless Blessed Blessing Enjoy Greatest Men Mind World
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Evil Future Men Moment Present Secret
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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Book Exercise Mind Read Reading Strengthened
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Atom Impressed Miracle Nature Quality Stand Wonder
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
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Other Passion Pleasing Single Solitude Tormented
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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Accompanied Exercise Gratitude Inward Pleasing Satisfaction Thank You Thankful
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
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
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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Always Evil Great Ignorance Misery Yield
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Charity Hand Heart Virtue
A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Doctors Humanity Kill Man Men Poor Ruffian Wealthy

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

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