Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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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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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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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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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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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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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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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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