Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONNo oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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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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