To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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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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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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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.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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