"The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding."
― Joseph Addison
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Nature
More From Joseph Addison
- "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
- "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."
- "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
More In Nature
- "Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing."― Ben Stein
- "There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."― Wole Soyinka
- "It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature."― Albert Einstein