There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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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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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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