Let freedom never perish in your hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere 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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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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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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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