Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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