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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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