There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISONWe are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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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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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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There 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.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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