There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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