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.
JOSEPH ADDISONAnimals, 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONAdmiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
JOSEPH ADDISONAll well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
JOSEPH ADDISONCharity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
JOSEPH ADDISONCourage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
JOSEPH ADDISONWhether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
JOSEPH ADDISONSilence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISONThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISONTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
JOSEPH ADDISONOur delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
JOSEPH ADDISONHonour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
JOSEPH ADDISONIt is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
JOSEPH ADDISONI 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.
JOSEPH ADDISONTemperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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