I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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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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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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