A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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