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.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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