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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.

Joseph Addison

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Change Fool Funny Inspirational Men Nature Ride
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 ADDISON

Arise Bless Blessing Contented Enjoy Great Happiness Men Mind Present Subduing
Our 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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Application Art Bestow Delight Exercise Science Study Upon
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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Accompanied Exercise Gratitude Inward Pleasing Satisfaction Thank You Thankful
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Act Create Dream Hope Life Possess Really Shadow
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Beget Cheerfulness Get Health Inspirational Well Yoga
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Freedom Hand July Own Perish
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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Always Evil Great Ignorance Misery Yield
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,
JOSEPH ADDISON

Beautiful Epitaph Grief Hear Incardinate King Meet Parent Tombstone Upon
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Art Beautifying Double Eye Laid Light Made Nature Planted Seat
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Form Hypocrisy Knowledge Learning Pedant Power
One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Difficult Important Master Mind Own Powerful Thing
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Critic Excellence Imperfection Inspiration Ought True
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Agree Angry Feeling Happiness Happy Inspirational Uncharitableness
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bless Blessed Blessing Enjoy Greatest Men Mind World
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Honesty Humanity Innumerable Integrity Man Nature Pain Sorrow Subject

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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