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Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but read more
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune read more
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in
his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath
somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she
is the farther off."
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled read more
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in read more
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.
Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she read more
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,
Hath divers ways to advance her followers:
To some she gives honor without deserving;
To other some, deserving without honor;
Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth;
Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
