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.
JOSEPH ADDISONAnimals, 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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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