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 ADDISONA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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