Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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