There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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It 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.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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