Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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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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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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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.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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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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A 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.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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