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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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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.
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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