If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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