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Jesters do often prove prophets.

Joseph Addison

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Blow Compassion Edge Form Mind Passion Temper Tenderness Women
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Character Complaints Hard Honesty Luck Man Men Prudent Strictly Work
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Charity Hand Heart Virtue
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Editing Editors Storm
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Birth Evening Listen Listening Moon Repeat Shade Stories Take Tale Wondrous
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Book Exercise Mind Read Reading Strengthened
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Godlike Justice Truly Virtue
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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Criticism Criticize Men Own Perform Ridiculous
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Every Life Love Pulse Soul Vein
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Change Fool Funny Inspirational Men Nature Ride
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Anxiety Fate Fear Judgment Lord Waiting
Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Bring Equally Evil Forth Good May Some Unexpected
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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Difference Good Greatest Men Mind Music Open Vanity Wise
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Discretion Man Mind Quality Shining Useful
Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Honor Inexperience Men Mischief Real

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