A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!Joseph Addison
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.
Joseph Addison
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well.
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections.
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