There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature 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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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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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