There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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