To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONHealth and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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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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