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.
JOSEPH ADDISONYoung men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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 is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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