When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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In 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.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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