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Letter "J" » Joseph Addison Quotes
«Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Friends
| Keywords:
aloud, thinking aloud
«Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
essentials, grand, This Life
«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.»
«All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
bread and butter, butter, regulated, set apart
«There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.»
«To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny»
«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.»
«Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.»
«Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.»
«Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
exercise, mind reading
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