Encourage innocent amusement.
JOSEPH ADDISONMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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