The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
JOSEPH ADDISONSoon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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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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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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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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