Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONI reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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