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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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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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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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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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