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 ADDISONWere 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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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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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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