There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONHealth and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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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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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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.
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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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.
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