Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
JOSEPH ADDISONJesters do often prove prophets.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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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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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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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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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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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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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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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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