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- Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us…
- The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of…
- Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider…
- Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
- Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes…
- Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
- Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
- Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the…
- If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect…
- To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness…
- Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the…
- Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us…
- Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the…
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