A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISONAll well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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