There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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