I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONNature 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.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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I 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.
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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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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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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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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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