"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor."

Addison, Joseph on honor
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"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."

Addison, Joseph on appreciation
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"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."

Addison, Joseph on music
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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 towards the defects of others."

Addison, Joseph on perfection
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"Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty."

Addison, Joseph on attitude
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"We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull."

Addison, Joseph on seriousness   

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."

Addison, Joseph on cheerfulness
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"A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without."

Addison, Joseph on science   

"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."

Addison, Joseph on contentment
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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"Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."

Epictetus on knowledge
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"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."

Epictetus on anger
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments."

Epictetus on soul   

"A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

Epictetus on wisdom   

"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."

Plutarch on adversity   

"Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."

Plutarch on adversity
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

Plutarch on failure
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"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

Plutarch on fate
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"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."

Plutarch on integrity
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"The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose."

Plutarch on purpose   

"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."

Plutarch on respectability
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"Rest is the sweet sauce of labor."

Plutarch on rest   

"To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them."

Plutarch on risk   

"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."

Plutarch on silence
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"The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing."

Plutarch on speakers and speaking   

"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

Plutarch on blame
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"In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing."

Plutarch on change   

"Character is simply habit long continued."

Plutarch on character
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"Time is the wisest of all counselors."

Plutarch on time   

"When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action."

Plutarch on action   

"The wildest colts make the best horses."

Plutarch on children