There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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