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Quote DB :: Authors :: Joseph Addison :: View Quote View Quote "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Joseph Addison Listed in: Happiness, Hope, Love Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.32  Rate Quote 34 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Joseph Addison "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." "A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes." "Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life." "To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny." Top 5 quotes from Happiness, Hope, Love "Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding." "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." "Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." "Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

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