I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen 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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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