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.
JOSEPH ADDISONEvil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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