The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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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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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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