Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISONJesters do often prove prophets.
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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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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.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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