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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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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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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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