If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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 noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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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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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.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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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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