Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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