True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
JOSEPH ADDISONThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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 nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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