A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISONMisery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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