Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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