When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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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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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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