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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe 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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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