If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONHe 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.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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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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