True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
JOSEPH ADDISONA person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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A 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.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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