There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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