A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISONHe who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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