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Quotes by Joseph Addison
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
- The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
- The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
- The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
- There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
- There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
- There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
- To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
- 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.
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