I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
JOSEPH ADDISONKnowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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