In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISONRiches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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