Joseph Addison

• "The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.“
• "Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.“
• "It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.“
• "There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.“
• "Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.“
• "There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.“
• "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.“
• "Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.“
• "The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.“
• "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.“
• "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.“
• "To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.“
• "The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.“
• "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.“
• "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.“
• "To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.“
• "A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.“
• "Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.“
• "A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.“
• "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.“
• "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.“
• "Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.“
• "Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.“
• "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.“
• "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.“
• "If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.“
• "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.“
• "The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.“
• "Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.“
• "No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.“
• "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.“
• "Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.“
• "Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.“
• "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.“
• "The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.“
• "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.“
• "Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.“
• "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.“
• "To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.“
• "The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.“
• "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.“
• "Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.“
• "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.“
• "I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.“
• "A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.“
• "The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.“
• "A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.“
• "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.“

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