The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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