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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Divine Even Foresight Secret Step Trace Transition Unable
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Know Knowledge Literature Men Nothing Utmost
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Age Birthday Giving Men Old Show Young
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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Animal Capable Compassion Creature Distress Philanthropy Sympathize
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Change Fool Funny Inspirational Men Nature Ride
Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Dust Little Look Visible
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Essential Hope Inspirational Life Love Something
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
JOSEPH ADDISON

Critic Excellence Imperfection Inspiration Ought True
One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Difficult Important Master Mind Own Powerful Thing
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Exert Force Full Giving Nature Play Temperance Vigor
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ensure Expose Flatter Flattery Hand Liable Men Other
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Below Good Greatest Heaven Mortal Music Wisdom
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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Always Evil Great Ignorance Misery Yield

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