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

—Joseph Addison

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About Joseph Addison

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Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. His simple prose style marked the end...

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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

—Joseph Addison

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

—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.

—Joseph Addison

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

—Joseph Addison

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

—Joseph Addison

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I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

—Spike Milligan

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Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens.

—Emily Henry in A Million Junes

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Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

—Kahlil Gibran

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Q: You have said that "the spirit is the body." What do you mean by that?

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