The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe 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 day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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