Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
JOSEPH ADDISONLove, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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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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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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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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