The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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