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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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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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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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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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