Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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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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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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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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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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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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