True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
JOSEPH ADDISONA 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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