Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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