Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONHung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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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.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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