it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhat 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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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.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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