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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.

Joseph Addison

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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Character Complaints Hard Honesty Luck Man Men Prudent Strictly Work
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Flattery Listener Person Skillful
Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Agreeable Describe Each Follow Give Grace Light Organ Set Side Surround
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Birth Evening Listen Listening Moon Repeat Shade Stories Take Tale Wondrous
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Essential Hope Inspirational Life Love Something
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Away Clear Friday Life Rust Sunday Week
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bosom Brother Counselor Elder Experience Inspirational Life Make Relevance Success
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Country Latin Meet Met Old Passage Upon Wonderfully
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Apprehension Befallen Found Generally Happen Really Suffer
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Doctors Humanity Kill Man Men Poor Ruffian Wealthy
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Blow Compassion Edge Form Mind Passion Temper Tenderness Women
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Discretion Man Mind Quality Shining Useful
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Circumstance Enemies Goal Innovation Men Naturally
A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Care First Heart Man Reproach

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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