The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONPedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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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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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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