The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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