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.
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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