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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

Joseph Addison

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Applause Down Greatness Look Multitude Neglect Soul
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
Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Antidote Dotes People Stupid Take
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Arise Conversation Enjoyment Friendship Happiness One Self Talking
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Hour Idea Lengthened Men Wise
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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Appear Eye Inconsistency Little Man Real World
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Beautiful Epitaph Grief Hear Incardinate King Meet Parent Tombstone Upon
it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
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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Country Latin Meet Met Old Passage Upon Wonderfully
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Confederacy Friendship League Pleasure Vice
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
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Beauty Discover Impression Mastery Men Reading Stroke Stronger Writing
A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Assault Character Dream Good Habit Impregnable Iron
Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Jester Literature Prophet Prove
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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Application Art Bestow Delight Exercise Science Study Upon
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Artificially Intelligence Natural People Stupid

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