Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Quotes by Joseph Addison
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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