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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Always Evil Great Ignorance Misery Yield
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISON

God Lost Mercy Rise Soul Transported View Wonder
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Description Force Give Giving Idea Ideas Lively Sight Themselves
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ensure Expose Flatter Flattery Hand Liable Men Other
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Flattery Listener Person Skillful
This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Command Deserve Merit Sempronius Success
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bless Blessed Blessing Enjoy Greatest Men Mind World
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Always Coxcomb Drama Fool Make Men Natural Own Sometimes
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ambitious Kind Literature None Writing
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Circumstance Enemies Goal Innovation Men Naturally
According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
JOSEPH ADDISON

According Contradictory Definition Error Falsehood Nature
Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Disquietude End Evil Fear Life Men Sorrow Summed
Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
JOSEPH ADDISON

Appear Attend Began Diligently Down Face Forget Happen Lomg Person Seldom
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Animal Capable Compassion Creature Distress Philanthropy Sympathize
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Care First Heart Man Reproach
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bondage Day Eternity Hour Liberty Virtue

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