A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen 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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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 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 value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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