Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
From Joseph Addison
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
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.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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