No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
JOSEPH ADDISONAdmiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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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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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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