I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Men 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.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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