I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
JOSEPH ADDISONMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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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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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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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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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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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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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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