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

Quote by Joseph Addison

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Jesters do often prove prophets.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already...

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not...

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not...

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are...

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are...

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all...

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all...

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

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

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

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

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider...

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider...

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there...

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there...

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as...

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as...

In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we...

In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we...

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

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

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what...

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what...