Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.Joseph Addison
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Csar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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