Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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.
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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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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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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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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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