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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown…
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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…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become…
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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…
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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…
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities…
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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.
— Democritus
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and…
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It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no…
— Thomas Paine
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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. A good…
— Joseph Addison
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To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard,…
— Gerolamo Cardano
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A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sufficiency in thought makes a prudent man wants nothing.
— Dr Jankada
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