If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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