In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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