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.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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