Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONNothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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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.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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