There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISONHealth and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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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,
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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