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Music, the greatest good that mortals know,And all of heaven we have below.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.
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See in what peace a Christian can die!
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Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.
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'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
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Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
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Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.
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To my confusion, and eternal grief, I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
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Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair.
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Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
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Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
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The honors of this world, what are they But puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life With dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.
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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.
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Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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That nothing is capable of being well set to Musick, that is not Nonsense.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There is not so variable a thing in Nature as a lady's head-dress.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Joseph Addison |
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Much might be said on both sides.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Discretion is a perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity.
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These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.
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Death only closes a Man's Reputation, and determines it as good or bad.
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Cheerfulness is...the best promoter of health.
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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Joseph Addison |
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The fraternity of the henpecked.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Upon the whole, a contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Joseph Addison |
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We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.
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