Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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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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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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