The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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 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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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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