The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONNo one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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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 true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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