It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISONit would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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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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