The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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