There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISONEvil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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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.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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