The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
JOSEPH ADDISONCheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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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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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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