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.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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 shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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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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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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,
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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