Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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 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 day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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