Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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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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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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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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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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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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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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