Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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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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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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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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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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