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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Joseph Addison

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Absurd Attention Men Over Part Pass
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Exert Force Full Giving Nature Play Temperance Vigor
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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Become Greater Mankind May Morality Person Qualified World
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Arise Bless Blessing Contented Enjoy Great Happiness Men Mind Present Subduing
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Evil Future Men Moment Present Secret
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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Act Create Dream Hope Life Possess Really Shadow
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Affection Business Extirpate Mind Regulate Virtue
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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Agree Angry Feeling Happiness Happy Inspirational Uncharitableness
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Discretion Man Mind Quality Shining Useful
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Book Exercise Mind Read Reading Strengthened
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Funny Know Money People Primitive Work
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Confederacy Friendship League Pleasure Vice
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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Complain Excellence Imperfect Inspiring Perfect
There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Both Infinite Numberless Pas Perpetual Reveries Vanities
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Disappointment Happiness Losses Pain Patience
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Bless Blessed Blessing Enjoy Greatest Men Mind World

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