There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
JOSEPH ADDISONA contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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