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 ADDISONWhat sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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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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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 friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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