Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONAmong 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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