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.
JOSEPH ADDISONA true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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