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.
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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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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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