The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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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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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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