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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue 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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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