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1 " If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. "
― Richard Steele ,
2 " People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. "
― Richard Steele
3 " Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. "
4 " I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes. "
5 " I have often lamented that we cannot shut our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. "
6 " And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength." As the love of God is the beginning of all our mercies, so love to God should be the end and effect of them all. As the stream leads us to the spring, so all the gifts of God must lead us to the giver of them. "
7 " Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools. "
8 " A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. "
9 " No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience "
10 " An author, when he first appears in the world, is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his Performances. "
