Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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