The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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