We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENA good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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