The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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