Jesters do often prove prophets.
JOSEPH ADDISONA solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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A 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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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