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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

Joseph Addison

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Change Fool Funny Inspirational Men Nature Ride
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Art Beautifying Double Eye Laid Light Made Nature Planted Seat
A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Assault Character Dream Good Habit Impregnable Iron
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
JOSEPH ADDISON

Critic Excellence Imperfection Inspiration Ought True
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Anxiety Fate Fear Judgment Lord Waiting
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Apprehension Beloved Jealousy Love Men Pain
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISON

God Lost Mercy Rise Soul Transported View Wonder
Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Fetch Incongruity Out Wit
One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Difficult Important Master Mind Own Powerful Thing
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Advance Anger Little Love More Moving Pride Side Visibly
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Funny Know Money People Primitive Work
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Evil Future Men Moment Present Secret
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Charity Hand Heart Virtue
Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Disquietude End Evil Fear Life Men Sorrow Summed
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Beauty Discover Impression Mastery Men Reading Stroke Stronger Writing
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Beauty Directly Inspirational More Soul

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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