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 ADDISONThe only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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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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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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