"Is it not wonderful, that the love of……" — Joseph Addison
"Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?"
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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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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank…
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When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -…
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
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