Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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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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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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