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 ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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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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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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