If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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