A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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