A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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