Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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