We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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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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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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