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Life Quotes by Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison suggests that compassion can lift much of human misery. He calls reading a basic tool for a good life and describes love as a second life that warms every vein and beats in every pulse. He also notes that true benevolence extends through all existence, sharing the distress of every feeling creature.

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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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Love is a second life ...

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The soul, secured in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

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Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

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My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

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Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of…

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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though…

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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope…

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“If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your…

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In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And…

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Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

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

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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

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The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party…

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Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had…

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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with…

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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness…

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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind…

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It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards…

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Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if…

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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and…

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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain…

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One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and…

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I 'm weary of conjectures,-this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed: my death and life, My bane and antidote, are…

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

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Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately…

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When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft…

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the…

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When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes…

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on…

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In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we do know that one day he will…

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In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and…

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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its…

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The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons…

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Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices…

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Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing…

As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief…

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts;…

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.