Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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