Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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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.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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