The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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