There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
JOSEPH ADDISONAn evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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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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