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.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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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 men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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