Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
JOSEPH ADDISONMen 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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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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