A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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