Jesters do often prove prophets.
JOSEPH ADDISONOn you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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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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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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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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