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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison

Fitness, Mind, Reading, Exercise, Body

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

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

Life, Good, Reading, Good Life, Living

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. - Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. Joseph Addison

Sunday, Week, Rust, Away, Whole, Clears

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. Joseph Addison

Friendship, Happiness, Self, Place, True

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

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

Happiness, Man, Mind, Blessing, World

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison

Life, Smile, Good, Sunshine, Flowers

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison

Great, Day, Sunshine, Blessings, Cloudy

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

Best, Health, Mind, Body, Friendly

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. Joseph Addison

Life, Success, Perseverance, Hope, Wise

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Joseph Addison

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Joseph Addison

Day, Clock, Right, Twice, Even, Stopped

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

Life, Love, Hope, Happiness, Three

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. Joseph Addison

Lust, Hunger, Kind, First, Call, Most

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison

Moment, Clouds, Mind, Serenity, Kind

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Joseph Addison

Virtue, Modesty, Only, Guard, Ornament

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

Patience, Blessings, Real, See, Us, Soon

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison

Life, Friendship, Human, Enjoyment

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison

Education, Soul, Sculpture, Marble

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Joseph Addison

Imperfection, Perfect, Quiet, Others

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! Joseph Addison

Man, Greatness, Red, Heaven, Country

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. Joseph Addison

Humble, People, Wish, Be Humble, Wishes

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. Joseph Addison

Music, Good, Heaven, Know, Greatest

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. Joseph Addison

Faith, Great, Measure, Atheist, Atheism

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. Joseph Addison

Advice, Nothing, Much, Receive, Which

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. Joseph Addison

Man, Power, Mind, Nothing, More, Than

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Man, Grief, Humanity

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. Joseph Addison

Happiness, Enemy, Virtue, Will, Corrupt

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