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.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf 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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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