I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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