Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
JOSEPH ADDISONJesters do often prove prophets.
More Joseph Addison Quotes
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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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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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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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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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 am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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