Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISONI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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