A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
JOSEPH ADDISONIn private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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