What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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