Joseph Addison | life
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Joseph Addison | legal
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Joseph Addison | learning
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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Joseph Addison | imagination
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.
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Joseph Addison | hope
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Joseph Addison | hope
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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Joseph Addison | hope
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Joseph Addison | happiness
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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