It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISONArtificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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