I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
JOSEPH ADDISONHealth and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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