We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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