It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cheerfulness 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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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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