"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore……" — Joseph Addison
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
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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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More Contracted Quotes
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude,…
— Henri Bergson
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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and…
— Samuel Johnson
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In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature…
— Jack Kornfield
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A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because…
— Dan Millman
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The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.
— T. Harv Eker
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Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low…
— Timothy Leary
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Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become…
— Thaddeus Golas
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Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important…
— Robert Fogel
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In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost…
— Jeff Pulver
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Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got…
— Monica Dickens
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