Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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