There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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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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