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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.

Joseph Addison

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Apprehension Beloved Jealousy Love Men Pain
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Bless Blessed Blessing Enjoy Greatest Men Mind World
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Creature Distinguish Laughter Men Mirth Other
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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God Lost Mercy Rise Soul Transported View Wonder
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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Evil Future Men Moment Present Secret
There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Both Infinite Numberless Pas Perpetual Reveries Vanities
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Age Birthday Giving Men Old Show Young
Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Always Coxcomb Drama Fool Make Men Natural Own Sometimes
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Friendship Greatest Human Life Real Sweetener
One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Breed Converse Excess Good Men World
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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Drinking Enemy Form Glasses Prescribe Quote Say
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Honor Liar Men Notorious Party Possibly
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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Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
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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Absurd Attention Men Over Part Pass
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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Arise Bless Blessing Contented Enjoy Great Happiness Men Mind Present Subduing
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Advice Good Literature Nothing Reluctance

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