A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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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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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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