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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
14+ Quotes by Joseph Addison
A curated collection of 14 inspirational quotes by Joseph Addison on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
— Joseph Addison
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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 an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."
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"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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"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 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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"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."
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"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."
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"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."
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"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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"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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"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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"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."