If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Quote by Joseph Addison

Topics: Friendship Quotes

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not...

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not...

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure...

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure...

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by...

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by...

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of...

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of...

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.

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...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments...

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments...

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are...

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are...

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but...

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but...

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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 fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their...

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their...

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a...

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a...

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love,...

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love,...

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think...

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think...

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments;...

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments;...