If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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