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 ADDISONThere is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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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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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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