No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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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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