A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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 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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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