The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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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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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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 solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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