There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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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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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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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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