A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
JOSEPH ADDISONA good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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.
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