A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
JOSEPH ADDISONMankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Silence 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.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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