What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. -Joseph Addison

 

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.


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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Joseph Addison
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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
238

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

Joseph Addison
233

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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233
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
225

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

Joseph Addison
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