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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTheir is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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