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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.

-Joseph Addison

age

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

-Joseph Addison

age

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.

-Joseph Addison

age

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

-Joseph Addison

beauty

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

-Joseph Addison

best

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

-Joseph Addison

business

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.

-Joseph Addison

change

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.

-Joseph Addison

courage

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

-Joseph Addison

death

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

-Joseph Addison

education

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.

-Joseph Addison

experience

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

-Joseph Addison

faith

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

-Joseph Addison

fear

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.

-Joseph Addison

friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

-Joseph Addison

friendship

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

-Joseph Addison

great

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

-Joseph Addison

great

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.

-Joseph Addison

great

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

-Joseph Addison

great

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

-Joseph Addison

happiness

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.

-Joseph Addison

happiness

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.

-Joseph Addison

happiness

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

-Joseph Addison

health

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

-Joseph Addison

hope

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.

-Joseph Addison

hope

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.

-Joseph Addison

hope

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.

-Joseph Addison

imagination

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

-Joseph Addison

knowledge

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.

-Joseph Addison

learning

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

-Joseph Addison

legal

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

-Joseph Addison

life

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.

-Joseph Addison

life

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.

-Joseph Addison

life

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

-Joseph Addison

love

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.

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