Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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