Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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