There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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