Quote by Joseph Addison
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it pr

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. – Joseph Addison

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Life
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. – Joseph Addison

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Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. – Anon.

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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. – Cyril Connolly

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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. – Jessica Lange

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Keep your minds open, but not so open that your brains fall out. – Walter Kotschnig, c.1940

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