The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the 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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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