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.
JOSEPH ADDISONHealth and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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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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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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