Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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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.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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