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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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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