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Joseph Addison Quotes

«I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.»
«Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!»
«Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves»
«One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.»
«There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.»
«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.»
«Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.»
«To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude»
«Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity»
«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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