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Joseph Addison

Feelings
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
4.4 · 33 votes · 20 reads
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Various
The post of honor is a private station.
4.8 · 36 votes · 156 reads
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Society
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
4.1 · 18 votes · 30 reads
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Art and Culture
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
4.3 · 33 votes · 166 reads
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Society
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
3.9 · 31 votes · 165 reads
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Virtues
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
4.5 · 27 votes · 19 reads
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Feelings
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
3.5 · 31 votes · 2 reads
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Various
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
3.2 · 57 votes · 106 reads
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Feelings
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.
4.5 · 22 votes · 29 reads
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Society
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
4.7 · 6 votes · 9 reads
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Art and Culture
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
4.1 · 39 votes · 156 reads
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