The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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