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Love is a second life it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. (Joseph Addison)
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter. View quote
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True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. View quote
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. View quote
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections. View quote
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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. View quote
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Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain. View quote
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There is no defense against reproach but obscurity it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. View quote
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The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane. View quote
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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. View quote
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality. (Joseph Addison)
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature. View quote
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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. View quote
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Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind. View quote
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When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. View quote
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Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. View quote
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. View quote
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The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. View quote
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Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. View quote
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When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. View quote
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Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. (Joseph Addison)
Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret art. View quote
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Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. View quote
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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor. View quote
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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. View quote
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