If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhen all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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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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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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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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