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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Joseph Addison

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 ADDISON

Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Beget Cheerfulness Get Health Inspirational Well Yoga
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Animal Capable Compassion Creature Distress Philanthropy Sympathize
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Atom Impressed Miracle Nature Quality Stand Wonder
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Arise Conversation Enjoyment Friendship Happiness One Self Talking
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.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Blow Compassion Edge Form Mind Passion Temper Tenderness Women
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Character Complaints Hard Honesty Luck Man Men Prudent Strictly Work
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Believe Own Side Stupid Uncharitable War
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Art Beautifying Double Eye Laid Light Made Nature Planted Seat
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Business Decision Despatch Making Nothing Requisite
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Artificially Intelligence Natural People Stupid
Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Agreeable Describe Each Follow Give Grace Light Organ Set Side Surround
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Endeavor Morality Temper Wit
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Ambitious Kind Literature None Writing
Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Honor Inexperience Men Mischief Real
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
JOSEPH ADDISON

Education Inspiring Marble Motivational Scripture

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