Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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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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