If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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