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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTrue happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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 who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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