If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
JOSEPH ADDISONA man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Man 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.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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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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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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