A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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