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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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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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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Content Good Obscurely Thyself
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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