Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this 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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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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