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.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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