Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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