Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
JOSEPH ADDISONWere a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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