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Life Hope Happiness Politician playwright

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

- Joseph Addison

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Morality Fact

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

- Joseph Addison

Courage Duty Sense Man

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

- Joseph Addison

Being

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

- Joseph Addison

Talent Man

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

- Joseph Addison

Age Man World

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

- Joseph Addison

Nature

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

- Joseph Addison

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