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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

Joseph Addison

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Animal Blackbird Frankly Fruit Garden Song Value
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Disappointment Happiness Losses Pain Patience
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Beget Cheerfulness Get Health Inspirational Well Yoga
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Aloud Best Friend Friendship Thinking
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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Along Flower Friendship Inspirational Life Pathway Scarred Smile Sunshine Sure
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
There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Both Infinite Numberless Pas Perpetual Reveries Vanities
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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Apprehension Beloved Jealousy Love Men Pain
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
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Other Passion Pleasing Single Solitude Tormented
Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Jester Literature Prophet Prove
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Advantageously Class Come Employ Long Maturity Really Women
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Art Beautifying Double Eye Laid Light Made Nature Planted Seat
That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Action Aid Imitate Meet Sport Strength
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Flattery Listener Person Skillful
I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Consider Deposed Dispute Divide Follow King Quickly

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