Uplifting Quotes
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“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“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
“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“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 proper figures.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;”
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“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.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“Oh! think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots, and their last fatal periods.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“I am...I am constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison
“A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.”
Quote by -Joseph Addison