Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
JOSEPH ADDISONThey were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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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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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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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.
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