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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. (Joseph Addison)
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. View quote
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. View quote
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. View quote
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. View quote
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. View quote
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. View quote
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. View quote
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel. View quote
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. View quote
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. (Joseph Addison)
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. View quote
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The post of honour is a private station. View quote
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. View quote
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O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate; How can I see the gay, the brave, the young, Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung! In joys of conquest he resigns his breath, And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death. View quote
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Love is not to be reason'd down, or lost In high ambition, and a thirst of greatness; 'Tis second life, it grows into the soul, Warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. View quote
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The honors of this world, what are they But puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? View quote
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Death only closes a Man's Reputation, and determines it as good or bad. View quote
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Cheerfulness is...the best promoter of health. View quote
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Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. View quote
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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. (Joseph Addison)
The man resolved, and steady to his trust, Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just, May the rude rabble's insolence despise. View quote
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Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise. View quote
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A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next to escape the censures of the world. View quote
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When time itself shall be no more, And all things in confusion hurl'd, Music shall then exert it's power, And sound survive the ruins of the world. View quote
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