Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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