He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
JOSEPH ADDISONHunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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