Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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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 not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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