Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
JOSEPH ADDISON
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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