One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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.
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