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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

By Joseph Addison
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

By Joseph Addison
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

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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.

By Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

By Joseph Addison
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

By Joseph Addison
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

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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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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.

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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

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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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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.

By Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.

By Joseph Addison