Jesters do often prove prophets.
JOSEPH ADDISONMankind 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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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