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.

Joseph Addison
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  1. We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in...

  2. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

  3. If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  4. Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

  5. There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

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