If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I 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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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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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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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