Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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 man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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.
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