Quote by Joseph Addison
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of o

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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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

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. – Virginia Woolf

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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. – Albert Camus

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. – William Blake

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. – Marcus Aurelius

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