He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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