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 greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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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 more requisite in business than despatch.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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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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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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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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