If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf 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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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