"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Joseph Addison"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Joseph Addison"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
Joseph Addison"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
Joseph Addison"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."
Joseph Addison"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Joseph Addison"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
Joseph Addison"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
Joseph Addison"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."
Joseph Addison"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
Joseph Addison"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
Joseph Addison"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
Joseph Addison"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."
Joseph Addison"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
Joseph Addison"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
Joseph Addison