"The Mind that lies fallow but a single……" — Joseph Addison
"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."
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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 Assiduous Quotes
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data,…
— John Dewey
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
— Eugenio Montale
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker,…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history…
— E L Doctorow
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The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
— Peter Abelard
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Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
— William Hurt
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we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead…
— Jose Saramago
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