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.
JOSEPH ADDISON
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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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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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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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.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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