Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
JOSEPH ADDISONThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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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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