Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
JOSEPH ADDISONJealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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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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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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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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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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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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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.
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