"A good disposition is more valuable than gold,……" — Joseph Addison
"A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature."
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Joseph Addison
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324 Quotes by Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison has 324 quotes on this site.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
— John Adams
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
— Edmund Burke
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for…
— Giacomo Casanova
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
— Margaret Cavendish
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
— Oswald Chambers
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value…
— Chanakya
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
— Thomas Aquinas
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You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
— Emmet Fox
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
— Booker T. Washington
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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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