Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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