Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading 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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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One 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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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 only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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