If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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