"Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought." — Joseph Addison
"Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought."
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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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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
— Jane Austen
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own…
— James A. Baldwin
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
— Josh Billings
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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
— Ray Bradbury
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
— A. S. Byatt
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would…
— Albert Camus
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill…
— Albert Camus
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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