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.
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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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.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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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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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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