On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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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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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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