The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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