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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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