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.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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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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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 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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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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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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