Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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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