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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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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