Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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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 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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