Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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