The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONHealth and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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