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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Joseph Addison

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Art Beautifying Double Eye Laid Light Made Nature Planted Seat
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Action Evil Intention Make Prevent Sin
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Below Good Greatest Heaven Mortal Music Wisdom
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Evil Future Men Moment Present Secret
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Antidote Dotes People Stupid Take
Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Dust Little Look Visible
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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Atom Impressed Miracle Nature Quality Stand Wonder
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Flattery Listener Person Skillful
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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Advantageously Class Come Employ Long Maturity Really Women
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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According Contradictory Definition Error Falsehood Nature
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Arise Conversation Enjoyment Friendship Happiness One Self Talking
This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Command Deserve Merit Sempronius Success
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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Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Against Criticism Defense Except Funny Humor Obscurity
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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Favor Important Industry Ingenuity Mankind Purchaser

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