Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONAnimals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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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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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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