No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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