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Luck: I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of ill-luck. _Addison

Library: "Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books." _Colton

Mere knowledge is comparatively worthless unless digested into practical wisdom and common sense as applied to the affairs of life._Tryon Edwards

Instability: He who begins many things finishes nothing._C. Simmons

"Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity." _G. D. Prentice

Diversions are most properly applied to ease and relieve those who are oppressed by being too much employed...To unbend our thoughts when they are too much stretched by are cares is not more natural than it is necessary; but to turn our whole life into a holiday is not only ridiculous, but destroys pleasure instead of increasing it._Saville

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets than about the means of removing it._Feltham

Destiny: Nothing comes to pass but what God appoints._Our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy or sorrow is predetermined._Seneca. "What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."_ Johnson

Despondency: "To feel that we can do a thing is often success, so to doubt and despond is a sure step to failure."