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A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit g...
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenit...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
JOSEPH ADDISON
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhab...
JOSEPH ADDISON
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair.
JOSEPH ADDISON
When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has wri...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obj...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its obje...
JOSEPH ADDISON
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
JOSEPH ADDISON
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabi...
JOSEPH ADDISON
If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strength...
JOSEPH ADDISON
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.
JOSEPH ADDISON
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's ey...
JOSEPH ADDISON
I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censu...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The love of a family is life's greatest blessing
JOSEPH ADDISON
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and he...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
JOSEPH ADDISON
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, ca...
JOSEPH ADDISON
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it JOSEPH ADDISON
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures a...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou sha...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if na...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell abou...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle...
JOSEPH ADDISON
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...
JOSEPH ADDISON
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r...
JOSEPH ADDISON
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON

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