There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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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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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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