A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISONA solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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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.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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