If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONMisery 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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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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