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 ADDISONThere 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
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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