If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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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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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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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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