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.
JOSEPH ADDISONHealth and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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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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He 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.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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