Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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