That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
JOSEPH ADDISONKnowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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