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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Joseph Addison

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Artificially Intelligence Natural People Stupid
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Godlike Justice Truly Virtue
Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Honor Inexperience Men Mischief Real
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Atom Impressed Miracle Nature Quality Stand Wonder
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Aloud Best Friend Friendship Thinking
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Disappointment Happiness Losses Pain Patience
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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Apprehension Beloved Jealousy Love Men Pain
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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Act Create Dream Hope Life Possess Really Shadow
I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Astonishment Competition Debate FAction Mankind Reflect Sorrow
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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Affection Birthday Daughter Day Family Father Love Mother Son Wives
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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Doctors Humanity Kill Man Men Poor Ruffian Wealthy
According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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According Contradictory Definition Error Falsehood Nature
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Christian Dominion Gratifying Men Mind Nothing Power
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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Conversation Friend Men Often Private Talk Thinking Weakest Wise
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Beautiful Epitaph Grief Hear Incardinate King Meet Parent Tombstone Upon
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Another Appreciation Burden Someone Thank You Volunteer World
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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Accompanied Exercise Gratitude Inward Pleasing Satisfaction Thank You Thankful
This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Command Deserve Merit Sempronius Success
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Along Flower Friendship Inspirational Life Pathway Scarred Smile Sunshine Sure
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Bondage Day Eternity Hour Liberty Virtue
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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Absurd Attention Men Over Part Pass
Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Dust Little Look Visible
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Essential Hope Inspirational Life Love Something
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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Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Book Exercise Mind Read Reading Strengthened
Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Bring Equally Evil Forth Good May Some Unexpected

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

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