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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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