When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
JOSEPH ADDISONI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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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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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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 contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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