Joseph Addison Quotes

English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Gratitude is the best attitude. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure, but scattered along the life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
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True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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