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.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of 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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The 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.
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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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