There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
JOSEPH ADDISONThe greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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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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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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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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