A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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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.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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