One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
JOSEPH ADDISONReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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When 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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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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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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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