A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts.
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Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.Joseph Addison
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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