It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne 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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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.
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If 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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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