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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison
Love, Inspirational, Life

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Joseph Addison
Love, Life, Soul
Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.174

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

Joseph Addison
Love, Grief, Passion
Joseph Addison (1712). “The Spectator”, p.53

The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.

Joseph Addison
Love, Farewell, Half

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

Joseph Addison
Love, Passion, Soul
Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.7

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Joseph Addison
Love, Heart, Mouths
Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.22

Love is a second life.

Joseph Addison
Love, Love Life, Love Is

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Joseph Addison
Love, Life, Pain
Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.283

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