All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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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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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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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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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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