A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISONSilence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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