"There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty."
-Joseph Addison
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.“
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"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
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"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."
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"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
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