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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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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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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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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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