Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
JOSEPH ADDISONLet freedom never perish in your hands.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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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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Whether 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
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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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 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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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