He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
JOSEPH ADDISONA solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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 something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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