The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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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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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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