There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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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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.
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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 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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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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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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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